Ebook {Epub PDF} The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury

 · He has interviewed survivors, sifted through the Russian archives, and drawn on his vast experience as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. What he has discovered and imparted in The Days is an epic narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had as Brand: Hachette Books. In Good+ condition, I believe this was a book club edition from / The hardcover is still a strong blue with no fading, The gilt lettering on spine still excellent. No marks or damage inside. Top front corner shows bumped. Its pages describe the prolonged siege (Sept 8, to ) of the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the Soviet Union by German and Finni. Detailed, but dry, this book treats of the almostdays of the German siege of Leningrad, focusing on the worst of it, , and cursorily with the rest. What came across most forcefully was the inefficiency of dictatorship and terror whereby the moods of the autocrat, Stalin, and his henchmen, Beria, Malentov, Molotov, could adversely effect the course of state action, in this case national defense/5.

The Days.: Harrison Salisbury. Hachette Books, - History - pages. 0 Reviews. The Nazi siege of Leningrad from to , during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. The Days. This book was first published in at a time when the Eastern Front in World War 2 got very little coverage in the UK. I first read it in about and it had a great impact on me. The scale and duration of the suffering and the number of deaths involved in the Siege of Leningrad are truly horrifying. The Days.: Harrison Salisbury. Hachette Books, - History - pages. 1 Review. The Nazi siege of Leningrad from to , during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima.

For the people of Leningrad it was the siege of Leningrad, the days that were to begin about the seventh of September and go on unrelenting until very nearly the end of January Harrison E. Salisbury You commemorated this and memorialized it, or celebrated it, I might say in your book " Days." Nine hundred days. The Days: The Siege of Leningrad. Front Cover, The Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury, GGA Image ID # 17ee The Third Reich siege of Leningrad from to was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died. The days: the siege of Leningrad. The author chronicles the siege of Leningrad and describes the suffering of its people and exposes the role of Stalin's political police throughout the war and the endless blunders of the military. Included are events leading up to the siege and the "Leningrad Affair" which occurred three years later.