Overview
- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Walker & Co., 2011
- Locale
- Saint Petersburg (Russia)
Soviet Union - Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Contents
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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. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-471) and index.
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.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802715944
080271594X (hbk.) : - Physical Description
- xv, 492 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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