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All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected, wrote Adolph Hitler on September 29, 1941, at the outset of Operation Barbarossa. In this struggle for survival, we have no interest in keeping even a proportion of the city s population alive. During the famed 900-day siege of Leningrad, the German High Command deliberately planned to eradicate the city s population through starvation. Viewing the Slavs as sub-human, Hitler embarked on a vicious program of ethnic cleansing. By the time the siege ended in January 1944, almost a million people had died. Those who survived would be marked permanently by what they endured as the city descended into chaos.In Leningrad, military historian Michael Jones chronicles the human story of this epic siege. Drawing on newly available eyewitness accounts and diaries, he reveals the true horrors of the ordeal including stories long-suppressed by the Soviets of looting, criminal gangs, and c
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Michael Jones has a Ph.D. in history from Bristol University and has taught at Glasgow University and Winchester College. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has previously written books on Agincourt and Stalingrad. He lives in Croyden, England.
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'Detailed account of the 872-day siege of the Soviet Union's iconic city' * Morning Star * 'Jones's book is set apart from other histories by his careful and judicious use of witness accounts' * Sunday Business Post * 'Where the book stands out is in the portrait of ordinary life in extraordinary circumstances... Fluently written... the uniquely terrible experience of suffering, especially of 1941-2, is effectively described' * BBC History * 'A tribute to the resilience of the human spirit' * Herald *
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- PublisherBasic Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0465011535
- ISBN 13 9780465011537
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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