| Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
| Description |
xv, 492 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-471) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union.
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg.
(OCoLC)fst01212867
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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Siege of Saint Petersburg (Saint Petersburg, Russia : 1941-1944) (OCoLC)fst01354921 |
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924 |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780802715944 (hbk.) |
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080271594X (hbk.) |
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