A review by questingnotcoasting
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips

adventurous informative medium-paced

4.0

This is one of my favourite types of non-fiction - a mix of travelogue and history. I read a lot of books about The Cold War and the Berlin Wall but I still learnt a lot from this and I found Phillips' journey absorbing. It was fascinating to read about the history of restricted movement and how that relates to migrants today. It reminded me a little of Border by Kapka Kassabova which had a similar premise but focused on the Bulgarian border with Greece and Turkey. 
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