{"product_id":"leningrad-9781408822418","title":"Leningrad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city''s historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid describes a city''s descent into hell - the breakdown of electricity and water supply; subzero temperatures; the consumption of pets, joiner''s glue and face cream; the dead left unburied where they fell - but also the extraordinary endurance, bravery and self-sacrifice, despite  the cruelty and indifference of the Kremlin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece of modern historical writing.  With a clear, unsentimental eye and in calm prose, she describes the horrors of the most lethal siege in modern history ... A terrible story, superbly researched and beautifully told * Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eMagisterial * Orlando Figes, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eAn admirable retelling of the extraordinary story of the 1941-44 siege ... The author has assembled the testimony of many unfamiliar witnesses, and vividly portrays what some of us consider the most dreadful saga of the Second World War * Max Hastings, The Times Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eImpeccably researched, well-paced and beautifully written, Leningrad marks a new benchmark in the study of the subject and a more nuanced, objective interpretation for a new century * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA moving and breathtaking examination of the terrible price extorted by unfettered political power on both sides -- Sally Moris * Daily Mail *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866813182295,"sku":"9781408822418","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408822418.jpg?v=1722280127","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leningrad-9781408822418","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}