The 900 days
Subtitle: the siege of Leningrad
By: [by] Harrison E. Salisbury.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 635
Subjects: Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944
Description: 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. Some of the data comes from Russian documents only recently made available.--from the publisher.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 597-610.