The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences invites you to a book talk with Anne Applebaum. She will present Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1953 a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award, and From a Polish Country House Kitchen

“Anne Applebaum’s highly readable book is distinguished by its ability to describe and evoke the personal, human experience of Sovietisation in vivid detail, based on extensive original research and interviews with those who remember.”
Timothy Garton Ash

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post and Slate and a visiting professor of International History in 2012-13 at the London School of Economics. Her previous book, Gulag: a History, won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004. Anne is married to Radek Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, and lives in London and Warsaw.