Like the holocaust and the gulag, its something we all have a moral duty to know about. For readers not familiar with the history, what was the siege of leningrad. Dmitri shostakovich and the siege of leningrad by m. Salisbury 14 times the bronze horseman by paullina simons 9 times leningrad. Leningrads main food warehouse is bombed by the germans and the acrid. The siege of leningrad world war iis most infamous siege began a little over two months after the launch of operation barbarossa, adolf hitlers surprise invasion of the soviet union.
Books about the siege of leningrad in world war 2 score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. The finnish army invaded from the north, cooperating with the germans until finland had recaptured. Petersburg in the soviet union by german and finnish armed forces during world war ii. Leningrader blockade was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the army group north of nazi germany against the soviet city of leningrad now saint petersburg on the eastern front in world war ii. I enjoyed the russian historical fiction aspects of the book more than the romance. After nazi germany invaded the soviet union in june 1941, german armies. Gradually, like the emigration of an insidious, phantom population, leningrad belonged more to the dead than to the living. We also offer ww2, siege of leningrad and russian revolution historical tours in st. On september 8, 1941, german forces closed in around the soviet city of leningrad, initiating a siege that would last nearly 900 days and claim the lives of 800,000 civilians. Anna petrovna ostroumovalebedevas diary, from writing the siege of leningrad.
The siege of leningrad by german and finnish forces lasted 872 days, from. What i loved best about this novel is the perseverance of the human spirit and love through the impossibly difficult times of the siege of leningrad. The best books on the siege of leningrad five books expert. The novel, which narrates the first and worst winter of a siege that lasted. City of thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by david benioff. Browse a list of books tagged siege of leningrad by our club members to find the best siege of leningrad books. Historical fiction covers a variety of subjects, not just the wives of henry viii. The dead watched over streets and sat in snowswamped buses. Anderson delivers an account of the siege of leningrad and the role played by russian composer shostakov. I prefer this book even to his novel life and fate, which was recently dramatised. It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the world war ii siege of leningrad.
In the midst of the nazis siege of leningrad, the young russian jew lev beniov is jailed for the crime of. The best books on the siege of leningrad five books. List of 10 siege of leningrad books paperback swap. Siege of leningrad books tagged siege of leningrad. The siege of leningrad is one of the great tragedies of 20th century european history. A novel of the siege of leningrad in wwii love, jv on. Welcome to histours the original siege of leningrad battlefield tour operating since 2009. Id like to see these five books pressed into the hands of every 18 year old, so they can understand the depths of brutality and stupidity that europe descended into in the not so distant past, and make sure that. The diaries were collected by alexis peri, a history professor at.
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