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Leningrad [electronic resource] : the epic siege of World War II, 1941-1944 / Anna Reid.
A gripping, authoritative narrative history of the siege of Leningrad from 1941-1944, interwoven with indelible personal accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists and memoirists on both sides.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802778826 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0802778828 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780143185741 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0143185748 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 492 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., maps.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Walker & Co., 2011.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-471) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Invasion: June-September 1941 -- The siege begins: September-December 1941 -- Mass death: Winter 1941-2 -- Waiting for liberation: January 1942-January 1944 -- Aftermath. Invasion: June-September 1941. 22 June 1941 ; Barbarossa ; "We're winning, but the Germans are advancing" ; The people's 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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