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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Siege of Leningrad Siege of Leningrad R. Conrad Stein Describes the nearly 900-day siege of the Baltic port city of Leningrad, during which more than one million Russian civilians died from stravation, cold, and German shells. OL15036465W
City of thieves City of thieves David Benioff Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-t… OL17740078W
Leningrad Leningrad Brian Moynahan Places the composition of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony and its 1942 performance during the siege of Leningrad in the context of the city's intellectual and social life and its sufferings from Stal… OL19994642W
Shurik Shurik Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne A Russian actress and nurse tells of her experience caring for an orphan boy during part of the three-year siege of Leningrad. OL4121941W