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This week’s book is Leningrad: Siege and Symphony by Brian Moynahan.
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is very well written history, but it is not for the faint of heart. To understand what the book is about, add the horrors of Stalin’s secret police to the nightmare of the starvation of millions of people under daily bombardment by the Germans determined to wipe one of the world’s great cities from the map.( Read more... )
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is very well written history, but it is not for the faint of heart. To understand what the book is about, add the horrors of Stalin’s secret police to the nightmare of the starvation of millions of people under daily bombardment by the Germans determined to wipe one of the world’s great cities from the map.( Read more... )