TY - BOOK ID - 137666867 TI - The iron curtain : Churchill, America, and the origins of the cold war PY - 1986 SN - 0199878935 0195363779 1423736303 1601297017 PB - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Diplomatic history. KW - Churchill, Winston, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137666867 AB - It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase ""Iron Curtain."" This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston ER -