The 900 days : the siege of Leningrad

Author(s)

• Salisbury, Harrison Evans

Bibliographic Information

The 900 days : the siege of Leningrad

Harrison E. Salisbury ; new introduction by the author

（A Da Capo paperback）

Da Capo Press, 1985, c1969

• pbk.

Other Title

Nine hundred days

Note

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1969

Bibliography: p. 597-610

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

}The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died, starving or freezing to death, most in the six months from October 1941 to April 1942 when the temperature often stayed at 30 degrees below zero. For twenty-five years the distinguished journalist and historian Harrison Salisbury has assembled material for this story. He has interviewed survivors, sifted through the Russian archives, and drawn on his vast experience as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. What he has discovered and imparted in The 900 Days is an epic narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had as much to fear from Stalin as from Hitler. He concludes his story with the culminating disaster of the Leningrad Affair, a plot hatched by Stalin three years after the war had ended. Almost every official who had been instrumental in the citys survival was implicated, convicted, and executed. Harrison Salisbury has told this overwhelming story boldly, unforgettably, and definitively. }

Table of Contents

• The Night Without End
• The White Nights
• Not All Slept
• The Fateful Saturday
• The Night Wears On
• Dawn, June 22
• What Stalin Heard
• What Stalin Believed
• Cloudless Skies
• A Matter of Detail
• On the Distant Approaches
• The Red Arrow Pulls In
• Even the Dead
• The Summer War
• The Dark Days
• Zhdanov in Action
• The White Swans
• The Red Army Retreats
• The First Days
• The Luga Line
• The Luga Line Crumbles
• The Enemy at the Gates
• Stalin on the Phone
• The Tallinn Disaster
• The Russian Dunkirk
• The Northern Crisis
• The Last Days of Summer
• Will the City Be Abandoned?
• Leningrad in Blockade
• The Circle Closed
• The Blood-Red Clouds
• Not All Were Brave
• A Hard Nut To Crack
• Zhukov In Command
• Blow Up the City!
• Theyre Digging In!
• The Kings Fortress
• Deus Conservat Omnia
• Seven Men Knew
• The Longest Winter
• When Will the Blockade Be Lifted?
• The Road of Life
• The City of Death
• The Sleds of the Children
• A New Kind of Crime
• The City of Ice
• The Leningrad Apocalypse
• T Is For Tanya
• The Ice Road To The Mainland
• Death, Death, Death
• Breaking the Iron Ring
• Again, Spring
• Operation Iskra
• The 900 Days Go On
• Epilogue
• The Leningrad Affair.

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• NCID: BA18639029
• ISBN:
  • 0306802538
• LCCN: 85011712
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 635 p., [17] leaves of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D764.3.L4
  • DC19 : 940.54/21
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00060877