This series examines the important issue of the significance of arbitrary borders in world history These studies describe arbitrary borders as places where people interact differently from the way they would had the boundary not existed Analytical, but easy to read, these brief histories will appeal to a broad sweep of readership The Iron Curtain symbolised the Cold War - the peaceful but highly sensitive 40-year stand-off between the Soviet Union and the US and its allies. Discover its story from it origins after WWII to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.