Iron Curtain

Opening with Churchill's use of the term in his legendary Fulton speech of 1946, this fascinating investigation shatters the conventional assumption that Churchill invented it and charts its long and influential history prior to the onset of the Cold War, starting in London's theatreland in the late eighteenth century and taking the reader through the development of the term in the First World War and the aftermath of the Russian Revolution as a shorthand fordescribing the deep divisions at the heart of Europe that these events caused.