Leningrad Under Siege
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Leningrad Under Siege
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Author : Ales Adamovich
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2007-12-26
Leningrad Under Siege written by Ales Adamovich and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-26 with History categories.
A vivid and harrowing account of ordinary Russians caught in the deadly WW2 siege, based on interviews, diaries, and memoirs. Includes photographs. Leningrad was under siege for almost three years, and the first winter of that siege was one of the coldest on record. The Russians had been taken by surprise by the Germans' sudden onslaught in June 1941. This book tells the story of that long, bitter siege in the words of those who were there. It describes how ordinary Leningraders struggled to stay alive and to defend their beloved city in the most appalling conditions. They were bombed, shelled, starved, and frozen. They dug tank-traps and trenches, built shelters and fortifications, fought fires, cleared rubble, tended the wounded, and—for as long as they had strength to do so—buried their dead. Many were killed by German bombs or shells, but most of them died of hunger and cold. Based on interviews with survivors of the siege and on contemporary diaries and personal memoirs, this book focuses primarily on three people: a young mother with two small children, a boy of sixteen at the outbreak of war, and an elderly academic. We see the siege through their eyes as its horrors unfold—and as they struggle to survive.
Leningrad
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Leningrad written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Saint Petersburg (Russia) categories.
Blockade Diary
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Author : Elena Kochina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Blockade Diary written by Elena Kochina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Wartime Suffering And Survival
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Author : Jeffrey K. Hass
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-06
Wartime Suffering And Survival written by Jeffrey K. Hass and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Social Science categories.
Wartime Suffering and Survival explores how average people survive in the face of incredible odds. Using diaries, recollections, police records, interviews, and state documents from the Blockade of Leningrad in World War II, he shows how average Leningraders coped with the nightmares of war, starvation, and extreme uncertainty. Hass not only shares Leningraders' stories to uncover a little-told side of Russian/Soviet history, but also to reveal the human condition--who we really are when our backs are against the wall.
Leningrad 1943
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Author : Alexander Werth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Leningrad 1943 written by Alexander Werth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Saint Petersburg (Russia) categories.
Preface by Nicholas Werth -- Moscow to Leningrad -- First Contact -- St. Petersburg - Leningrad -- The Observation Tower -- Sightseeing -- Kamenny Island -- Leningrad Airmen -- A Factory in the Famine -- Sunday Evening in Leningrad -- Children in the Famine and Now -- The Bristles of the Hedgehog -- Endurance : The Kirov Works -- At the Writer's Union -- All-day Shelling -- The Mayor of Leningrad Speaks -- The Last Day -- Leningrad's Liberation : The Second Visit.
Leningrad
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Author : Michael Jones
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-05-28
Leningrad written by Michael Jones and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-28 with History categories.
When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city’s civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in. A specialist in battle psychology and the vital role of morale in desperate circumstances, Michael Jones tells the human story of Leningrad. Drawing on newly available eyewitness accounts and diaries, he shows Leningrad in its every dimension including taboo truths, long-suppressed by the Soviets, such as looting, criminal gangs and cannibalism. But, for many ordinary citizens, Leningrad marked the triumph of the human spirit. They drew deeply on their inner resources to inspire, comfort and help one another. At the height of the siege an extraordinary live performance of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony profoundly strengthened the city's will to resist. When German troops heard it in their trenches one remarked: ‘We began to understand we would never take Leningrad. Yet, Leningrad’s self-defence came at a huge price. When the 900-day siege ended in 1944 almost a million people had died and those who survived would be permanently marked by what they had endured, as this superbly insightful and moving history shows.
Leningrad 1941 42
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Author : Sergey Yarov
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2017-07-31
Leningrad 1941 42 written by Sergey Yarov and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-31 with History categories.
This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues. All of them, nevertheless, wanted to pass on to us the story of the torments they endured, their stoicism, compassion and humanity, and of how people reached out to each other in the nightmare of the siege. Though the siege continues to loom large in collective memory, an overemphasis on the heroic endurance of the victims has tended to distort our understanding of events. In this book, which focuses on the "Time of Death", the harsh winter of 1941-42, Sergey Yarov adopts a new approach, demonstrating that if we are to truly appreciate the nature of this suffering, we must face the full realities of people's actions and behaviour. Many of the documents published here – letters, diaries, memoirs and interviews not previously available to researchers or retrieved from family archives – show unexpected aspects of what it was like to live in the besieged city. Leningrad changed, and so did the morals, customs and habits of Leningraders. People wanted at all costs to survive. Their notes about the siege reflect a drama which cost a million people their lives. There is no spurious cheeriness and optimism in them, and much that we might like to pass over. But we must not. We have a duty to know the whole, bitter truth about the siege, the price that had to be paid in order to stay human in a time of brutal inhumanity.
Leningrad
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Author : Anna Reid
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-09-05
Leningrad written by Anna Reid and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-05 with History categories.
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 century - would have been very different. Leningrad is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal stories - immediate accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists and memoirists on both sides. These twentieth-century European civilians living through unbearable hardship reveal the terrible details of life in the blockaded city: the all-consuming and daily search for food; crawling up ice-rounded steps on hands and knees, hauling a bucket of water; a woman who has just buried her father noticing how the cemetery guards have used a frozen corpse with outstretched arm and cigarette between its teeth as a signpost to a mass grave; another using a dried pea to make a rattle for her evacuated grandson's first birthday, and putting it away in a drawer when she hears, six months later, that he has died of meningitis. In Leningrad, Anna Reid answers many of the previously unanswered questions about the siege. How good a job did Leningrad's leadership do - would many lives have been saved if it had been better organised? How much was Stalin's and Moscow's wariness of western-leaning Leningrad (formerly the Tsars' capital, St Petersburg) a contributing factor? How close did Leningrad come to falling into German hands? And, above all, how did those who lived through it survive?
The 900 Days
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Author : Harrison Salisbury
language : en
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Release Date : 2009-04-29
The 900 Days written by Harrison Salisbury and has been published by Hachette+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-29 with History categories.
This extensively researched history of the Nazi blockade against Russia on the Eastern Front during World War II is "a nonfiction masterpiece."* The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died, starving or freezing to death, most in the six months from October 1941 to April 1942 when the temperature often stayed at thirty degrees below zero. For twenty-five years the distinguished journalist and historian Harrison Salisbury assembled material for this story. He has interviewed survivors, sifted through the Russian archives, and drawn on his vast experience as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. What he has discovered and imparted in The 900 Days is an epic narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had as much to fear from Stalin as from Hitler. He concludes his story with the culminating disaster of the Leningrad Affair, a plot hatched by Stalin three years after the war had ended. Almost every official who had been instrumental in the city's survival was implicated, convicted, and executed. Harrison Salisbury has told this overwhelming story boldly, unforgettably, and definitively. "Magnificent." —* New York Times Book Review "An epic story beyond compare." — New York Review of Books
The 900 Days
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Author : Harrison Evans Salisbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The 900 Days written by Harrison Evans Salisbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Saint Petersburg (Russia) categories.