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Book SynopsisLena Mukhina was a sixteen-year-old student and living in Leningrad when the German army invaded the USSR in 1941.
Trade ReviewSixteen-year-old Lena Mukhina's diary is to the Siege of Leningrad what Anne Frank's was to Nazi-occupied Amsterdam ... A must read for young adults and their parents everywhere. * Rachel Holmes, author of Eleanor Marx: A Life *
Even at the height of the Leningrad Siege, starving and surrounded by death and destruction, Lena Mukhina somehow continued to keep a diary. Her story, though searing, is an inspiration. * Robert Service, author of Stalin: A Biography *
The Anne Frank of Leningrad ... Almost unbearably moving ... Her suffering is real and terrible. As we read on, we can feel something important sapping out of her. Call it spirit, if you like, or the optimism of youth. But adversity does not strengthen her; it corrodes her. She gets away, but the best of her, we suspect, she has left behind. -- Marcus Berkmann * Mail on Sunday *
Lena's diary, sustained by emotional stamina and driven by daily drama, describes one of the worst civilian horrors of modern wartime. -- Iain Finlayson * The Times *
Russia's Anne Frank - harrowing and philosophical. * Daily Telegraph *
