Leningrad The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

Name: Leningrad The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
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ISBN: 9780802778819

ISBN-10: 080277881X

ISBN-13: 9780802778819

Edition: N/A

Authors: Anna Reid, Andrew Linklater

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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.Leningradtackles a raft of unanswered questions: Was the size of the…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Maps


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Invasion: June-September 1941



22 June 1941



Barbarossa



'"We're Winning, but the Germans are Advancing'



The Peoples Levy



'Caught in a Mousetrap'



The Siege Begins: September-December 1941



'No Sentimentality'



'To Our Last Heartbeat'



125 Grams



Falling Down the Funnel



Mass Death: Winter 1941-2



The Ice Road



Sleds and Cocoons



'We Were Like Stones'



Svyazi



'Robinson Crusoe Was a Lucky Man'



Corpse-Eating and Person-Eating



Anton Ivanovich is Angry



The Big House



Waiting for Liberation: January 1942-January 1944



Meat Wood



The Gentle Joy of Living and Breathing



The Leningrad Symphony



The Last Year



Aftermath



Coming Home



The Cellar of Memory



How Many?


Appendix II


Notes


Bibliography


Index