The Art of Betrayal

Description

For those looking to cross it, the Iron Curtain was considerably more than a political concept or expository gadget. It was something substantial and regularly savage. In the first decade of the Cold War, it was rising mile by mile. Thick wooden posts supported three dividers of spiked metal, taller than a man, on the Czechoslovakian border with Austria. A wide clearing lay on one side to make impressions simple to spot, with landmines calmly littered around.