Harrison E Salisbury

To write this book, the author has assembled materials over a 25 year period, interviewing survivors, sifting through Russian archives, and drawing on his vast experience as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. This book is an epic narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had as much to fear from Stalin as from Hitler. Nearly 3,000,000 people endured the siege of Leningrad, almost half of them died, starved, or froze to death, most...