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Leningrad

By Anna Reid

Leningrad Social Sciences

Leningrad

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
528
Release Date:
2012-08-30
Publication Date:
2012-08-30
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1408822415
ISBN13:
9781408822418
Weight:
425 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
40 cm
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