Poland was behind the Iron Curtain and under Communist control, but that didn't stop the Rolling Stones from putting on a ...

In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a truck that had "arrived on an overnight ferry from Copenhagen", said Luke ...

Scenes that would have been unfathomable a decade ago are proliferating across Poland. In one of last year’s most viral ...

In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...

As a topflight U.S. military analyst, the New York Times’s Hanson W. Baldwin usually gets a cordial welcome at the Pentagon. But last week he got a rude surprise. When he tried to make ...

The CIA Book Club’, by Charlie English, recounts the secret history of the CIA’s literary warfare programme during the Cold War ...

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? From 1945 until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, citizens of central and ...

Most homeowners will agree that nothing beats the classic, stylish look of wrought iron curtain rods. However, as you go to decorate your windows, you may discover that your wrought iron pole is ...