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The 900 days

The 900 days

Harrison Evans Salisbury · 1969 · 635 pages

HistorySeige, 1941-1944Siege, 1941-1944Saint petersburg (russia), history, siege, 1941-1944World war, 1939-1945, soviet union

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The author chronicles the siege of Leningrad and describes the suffering of its people and exposes the role of Stalin's political police throughout the war and the endless blunders of the military. Included are events leading up to the siege and the "Leningrad Affair" which occurred three years later. Some of the data comes from Russian documents only recently made available.--from the publisher.

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