Leningrad
The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
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Leningrad
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Kristin Atherton
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Anna Reid
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.
Anna Reid's Leningrad is a gripping, authoritative narrative history of this dramatic moment in the twentieth century, interwoven with indelible personal accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists on both sides. They reveal the Nazis' deliberate decision to starve Leningrad into surrender and Hitler's messianic miscalculation, the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the horrors experienced by soldiers on the front lines, and, above all, the terrible details of life in the blockaded city: the relentless search for food and water; the withering of emotions and family ties; looting, murder, and cannibalism- and at the same time, extraordinary bravery and self-sacrifice.
Stripping away decades of Soviet propaganda, and drawing on newly available diaries and government records, Leningrad also tackles 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, Leningrad gives voice to the dead and will rival Anthony Beevor's classic Stalingrad in its impact.©2011 Anna Reid (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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I have read Anna Reid's Leningrad with much admiration. It is a superb account--well written and well researched-and above all it provides an honest reappraisal of the myths surrounding this epic siege.
Excerpts from the diaries kept by Leningraders during the blockade balance Reid's lively academic prose. Juxtaposed with the ravings of two dictators, the siege diarists carry the book with a raw, desperate eloquence.
In the first full-length book on the siege since 1969, Anna Reid used [a trove of new material] to compelling effect to tell this horrific and occasionally inspiring story.
With access to their candid diaries, police records, and government and military archives, [Reid] gives a detailed and harrowing account of life and death in Leningrad. 'The end,' Ms. Reid writers, 'like the end of all great conflicts, left a vast silence... of facts falsified or left unsaid.' Now the people themselves have regained their voices.
Collecting firsthand testimony from diaries and letters, Reid tunnels into beseiged Leningrad, stripping away the Stalinist fairy tales in order to reveal the unbearably stark landscape of a society torn free of all its moorings.
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