Leningrad: State Of Siege Michael Jones John Murray Publishers Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

When The German High Command Encircled Leningrad It Was A Deliberate Policy To Eradicate City\ S Civilian Population By Starving Them Death As Winter Set In And Food Supplies Dwindled Starvation Panic Specialist Battle Psychology Vital Role Of Morale Desperate Circumstances Michael Jones Tells Human Story Drawing On Newly Available Eyewitness Accounts Diaries He Shows Its Every Dimension Including Taboo Truths Long-Suppressed Soviets Such Looting Criminal Gangs Cannibalism But For Many Ordinary Citizens Marked Triumph Spirit They Drew Deeply Their Inner Resources Inspire Comfort Help One Another At Height Siege An Extraordinary Live Performance Shostakovich\ Seventh Symphony Profoundly Strengthened Will Resist Troops Heard Trenches Remarked: \ We Began Understand Would Never Take Yet Leningrad\ Self-Defence Came Huge Price 900-Day Ended 1944 Almost Million People Had Died Those Who Survived Be Permanently What Endured This Superbly Insightful Moving History Σελίδες: 352 Διαστάσεις: 12 8X12 8Cm