When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid describes a city's descent into hell - the breakdown of electricity and water supply; subzero temperatures; the consumption of pets, joiner's glue and face cream; the dead left unburied where they fell - but also the extraordinary endurance, bravery and self-sacrifice, despite the cruelty and indifference of the Kremlin.
| ISBN: | 9781408822418 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 2012 |
| Author: | Anna Reid |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 528 pages |
| Genres: |
Second World War Modern warfare Battles and campaigns European history |