Leningrad The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Leningrad The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
- ISBN 13:
9780802778819
- ISBN 10:
080277881X
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 09/04/2012
- Publisher: Walker Books
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Summary
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 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, Leningradgives voice to the dead and throws new light on one of the twentieth century's greatest calamities.