Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) |
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text file |
Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; August 1991 Sussex; 1956 Woody Bay; Sussex and London; London; Hungary; Russia; Sussex; Russia; Hungary; 1956-1961 Hungary and Sussex; West Germany and West Berlin; East Berlin; Sussex; 1962-1967 Sussex and London; Russia; 1968 Edinburgh; Prague; London; Russia; Moscow; London; Sussex; London; Moscow; Then and Now Sussex, 1969; Sussex and London, 1974; Sussex and Hungary, 1985-1991; Moscow, 1989-1991; Hungary, Moscow and Sussex, 1991; 'Terrible events, unending danger ... ' |
Summary |
Vivid and candid, this historical novel chronicles the lives of three families over the course of 50 years during the Cold War and its aftermath. The experiences of each family-one British, one Hungarian, and one Russian-reflect the brutality, danger, bravery, heartbreak, hope, and disappointment during the days when the world was divided by the Iron Curtain. This account skillfully portrays how world events-including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Solidarity movement in Poland in the early 1980s, and the end of Communism in. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union. |
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Social conditions. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Subject |
Cold War -- Fiction.
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Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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Novels.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Symons, John. A Tear in the Curtain. Chicago : Shepheard-Walwyn, ©2013 9780856832925 |
ISBN |
9780856833908 (electronic book) |
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0856833908 (electronic book) |
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9780856833922 (electronic book) |
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0856833924 (electronic book) |
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