Leningradas
by:
Dalia Uržaitė (author)
Anna Reid (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9786094032851
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Obuolys
Pages no: 552
Edition language: Lithuanian
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...