The Siege of Leningrad

On Christmas day 1941 the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet instituted a medal for the courageous defence of Leningrad. And on that same day three thousand seven hundred Leningraders died of starvation. Yet the city was to suffer not just through that winter, but for nine hundred days.

• Author
• Alan Wykes

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 160

• Series
• Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Battle

• Publisher
• Ballantine Books, Inc.

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780345016928

• Genres
• history

• Release date
• 1968