Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
Format: kindle
ASIN: B005HCE9V2
The books focuses mostly on the civilian experience of the siege, and - probably because of a bias in the availability of sources - on the experiences of educated middle class people. Who wrote. A lot.Diaries are a major source, along with interviews conducted many years later, and for me that was t...
fantastic read, all the more impressive because Reid only finished a bachelor's degree. *one error: Reid writes, "Stalin shouldn't have liquidated his army's generals during his purge;" however, among Hitler's last words were "I should have purged the army's generals like Stalin." these kind of broa...
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