BOOK REVIEW Postwar enslavement of half of Europe*

IRON CURTAIN: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
by Anne Applebaum

(London: Allen Lane/Penguin) Hardcover: 614 pages ISBN: 9780713998689 RRP: AUD$49.95
 
Reviewed by Bill James
 
When I reviewed Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History a decade ago (News Weekly, September 6, 2003), I commented that it was refreshing to come across a baby-boomer journalist from the left-wing Washington Post who was prepared to honestly criticise communism.&#13…

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