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Language: en
Pages: 334
Pages: 334
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Cassell
Leningrad (now reverted to its pre-1914 name of St Petersburg) was surrounded by German forces in 1941 and cut off from the rest of Russia. It was besieged for
Language: en
Pages: 306
Pages: 306
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Grove Press
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by "The New York Times Book Review, The Siege" is Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental--the Nazi's 1941 winter
Language: en
Pages: 460
Pages: 460
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-24 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of
Language: en
Pages: 752
Pages: 752
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:
Based on an unparalleled access to Russian archival sources and going far beyond the military aspects of other historical works, Glantz's book is a testament to
Language: en
Pages: 715
Pages: 715
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-06 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The sie