Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Modern · Nonfiction, War, History
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
2012 · 566 pages · Nonfiction
59.4Must-Read
Score Modern
Score Modern
Critics' pick
≈ 14 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2012).
By the numbers
59.4Must-Read Score
- Readers30 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics28 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Bestseller13 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Buzz1 out of 100 · counts 10%
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero. The parts combine into the Must-Read Score, shown on a scale where the best book we found scores 99 and the last book to make the ranking scores 50.
Where it ranks
- #187 of the 198 history books we rank
- #1332 of the 1,575 modern books we rank
- #2438 of the 2,819 books we rank
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2012)
Reads as
True story
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