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Leningrad - Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 (Paperback)
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Leningrad - Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 (Paperback)
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On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler's brutal surprise
attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The German
siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some
three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
Stripping away decades of Soviet propaganda, and drawing on newly
available diaries and government records, Anna Reid chronicles the
Nazis' deliberate decision to starve Leningrad into surrender, the
incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the horrors
experienced by soldiers on the front lines, and, above all, the
ordeal of life in the blockaded city."Leningrad" tackles a raft of
unanswered questions: Was the size of the death toll as much the
fault of Stalin as of Hitler? Why didn't the Germans capture the
city? Why didn't it collapse into anarchy? What decided who lived
and who died? Impressive in its originality and literary style,
"Leningrad" gives voice to the dead and throws new light on one of
the twentieth century's greatest calamities.
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