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Komska, Yuliya,

The icon curtain : the Cold War's quiet border / Yuliya Komska. - vii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conditions: ruins of the Cold War -- Cornerstones: iconoclasm and the making of the prayer wall -- Infrastructure: civilian border travel and travelogues -- Uses: visual nostalgia at the prayer wall -- Epilogue: tragic frames.

ISBN: 9780226154190 (cloth : alk. paper) 022615419X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2014016858

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB4C5695 bnb GBB4C8060 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016938803 Uk 016941168 Uk

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-talet

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sudeten Germans--History--20th century.
Travelers' writings, German--History and criticism.
Sudeten Germans--Religion.
Cold War.
HISTORY--Eastern.--Europe
Sudetendeutsche.
Staatsgrenze.
Ost-West-Konflikt.
Eiserner Vorhang.
Sudettyskar--historia.
Tyska reseskildringar.
Västtyskland.
Kalla kriget.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Bohemian Forest--Description and travel.
Bohemian Forest Region--Church history--20th century.
Bohemian Forest--In art.
Czechoslovakia--History--1945-1992.
Germany (West)--Boundaries--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.
Czechoslovakia--Boundaries--History--Germany (West)--20th century.
Deutschland.
Tschechoslowakei.
Tjeckoslovakien.

LC Class. No.: DD78.S77 / K66 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 943/.34087