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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.
ISBN/EAN | 9781408822418 |
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Author | Anna Reid |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Publication date | 30 Aug 2012 |
Format | Paperback |
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Leningrad : Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44
When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow.
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