Reid Anna: Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War — and of the twentieth…