Reflections on the Revolution in Europe BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL PENGUIN, £14.99
You might not hear about this book much in the next month, nor even in the next year, but it will affect your life in some way, and that of our country and continent.
Christopher Caldwell is a mildmannered Financial Times journalist who over the past decade [...]
The greatest change in the history of Europe
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Remember the heroes who cut the Iron Curtain
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Catholic Herald Notebook, August 21
This week sees two important anniversaries relating to that glorious year, 1989: the election of Poland’s first non-Communist prime minister since the Second World War, and Hungary opening its border to Austria, signalling the first physical dismantling of the Iron Curtain.
It was an awesome autumn, the first great counter-revolution in European [...]