To Besiege a City
Leningrad 1941–42
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 8 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472856562
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 234x152x38 mm
- Weight 602 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16-page plate section in black and white 778
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Short description:
A ground-breaking history of the siege of Leningrad, masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material.
MoreLong description:
'[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The Telegraph
Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024
A ground-breaking history of the siege of Leningrad, masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material.
Starting in September 1941, the Red Army and the civilian population of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against constant bombing, shelling, and starvation inflicted by the encircling Axis forces. The Soviets made repeated, but unsuccessful, bids to break German lines and reach the city, failing to end the siege but nevertheless defying the odds to construct and defend the 'Road to Life' over the frozen Lake Ladoga, across which meager supplies were transported to the embattled garrison. Although they defeated Russia's Second Shock Army twice over, the German infantry divisions were also steadily eroded, their resources and morale depleted under the pressure of near-constant assaults and battles.
With To Besiege a City, Eastern Front historian Prit Buttar interweaves first-hand accounts with revelatory research to deliver the first major history of the siege of Leningrad in over a decade, expertly analyzing strategic failings on both sides while simultaneously detailing the horrific realities of daily life during a merciless war.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Window to the West
Chapter 2: Stalin's Purges
Chapter 3: Flawed Plans for War
Chapter 4: Barbarossa Unleashed
Chapter 5: The Approach to Leningrad
Chapter 6: Sinyavino and Tikhvin
Chapter 7: Starvation: The First Winter
Chapter 8: Bandenkrieg: The Partisan War
Chapter 9: Lyuban: The Price of Optimism
Chapter 10: Lyuban: Attrition and Failure
Chapter 11: Summer 1942
Chapter 12: A Bloodstained Autumn
Chapter 13: Towards the Second Winter
Chapter 14: A Bitter Stalemate
Notes
Bibliography
Index
