Leningrad - Tragedy of a City Under Seige 1941-44

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The siege of Leningrad is one of the great stories of extraordinary and heroic endurance in World War II
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out.

Using newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid describes a city's descent into hell - the breakdown of electricity and water supply; subzero temperatures; the consumption of pets, joiner's glue and face cream; the dead left unburied where they fell - but also the extraordinary endurance, bravery and self-sacrifice, despite the cruelty and indifference of the Kremlin.
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Weight 0.410000
Author Anna Reid
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781408822418
Pages 528
Published 30/08/2012
Publisher Bloomsbury
Section Travel Writing: General
Size Unfolded 20x13cm
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