Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44. Anna Reid
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408822418 (1408822415)
Publish date: August 1st 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
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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