War Within - Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad

In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in modern history.

About the author

Alexis Peri is the author of The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad, winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize and named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best books on the Soviet home front. She is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.

Summary

The German blockade of Leningrad lasted 872 days and cost almost a million civilian lives—one of the longest, deadliest sieges in modern history. Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of life, Alexis Peri tells the tragic, intimate story of how citizens struggled to make sense of a world collapsing around them.

Product details

• Authors: Alexis Peri
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780674971554
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97155-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Battles & campaigns, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Battles and campaigns, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era