British correspondent Alexander Werth's eyewitness account of the siege of Leningrad in 1941-1944. Werth was the only British journalist to remain in Leningrad during the 900-day siege of the city. He gives an unembellished account of the horrors of the siege, the bombings, the hunger and the daily struggle for survival, but also the will to resist the besiegers.
Group
Books (second-hand)
State
Second Hand
Author
Werth, A.
Title
Leningrad 1943. Inside a City under Siege
Details
English text. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. 2015. 219 pp.