The 900 Days: The Siege Of LeningradHachette Books, 29. apr 2009 - 672 pages 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 city's survival was implicated, convicted, and executed. Harrison Salisbury has told this overwhelming story boldly, unforgettably, and definitively. |
Contents
THE WHITE NIGHTS 3 | 3 |
NOT ALL SLEPT | 12 |
THE FATEFUL SATURDAY | 21 |
THE NIGHT WEARS ON | 30 |
DAWN JUNE 22 | 41 |
WHAT STALIN HEARD | 55 |
WHAT STALIN BELIEVED | 67 |
CLOUDLESS SKIES | 82 |
NOT ALL WERE BRAVE | 300 |
A HARD NUT TO CRACK | 308 |
ZHUKOV IN COMMAND | 316 |
BLOW UP THE CITY | 327 |
THEYRE DIGGING IN | 338 |
THE KINGS FORTRESS | 353 |
DEUS CONSERVAT OMNIA | 362 |
SEVEN MEN KNEW | 376 |
A MATTER OF DETAIL | 92 |
ON THE DISTANT APPROACHES | 98 |
THE RED ARROW PULLS IN | 110 |
EVEN THE DEAD | 119 |
The Summer | 131 |
THE DARK DAYS | 133 |
ZHDANOV IN ACTION | 142 |
THE WHITE SWANS | 150 |
THE RED ARMY RETREATS | 158 |
THE FIRST DAYS | 168 |
THE LUGA LINE | 180 |
THE LUGA LINE CRUMBLES | 194 |
THE ENEMY AT THE GATES | 202 |
STALIN ON THE PHONE | 214 |
THE TALLINN DISASTER | 221 |
THE RUSSIAN DUNKIRK | 233 |
THE NORTHERN CRISIS | 243 |
THE LAST DAYS OF SUMMER | 251 |
WILL THE CITY BE ABANDONED? | 260 |
Leningrad in Blockade | 271 |
THE CIRCLE CLOSED | 273 |
THE BLOODRED CLOUDS | 288 |
The Longest Winter | 391 |
WHEN WILL THE BLOCKADE BE LIFTED? | 393 |
THE ROAD OF LIFE | 407 |
THE CITY OF DEATH | 423 |
THE SLEDS OF THE CHILDREN | 435 |
A NEW KIND OF CRIME | 447 |
THE CITY OF ICE | 460 |
THE LENINGRAD APOCALYPSE | 473 |
T IS FOR TANYA | 484 |
THE ICE ROAD TO THE MAINLAND | 497 |
DEATH DEATH DEATH | 506 |
Breaking the Iron Ring | 519 |
AGAIN SPRING | 521 |
OPERATION ISKRA | 535 |
THE 900 DAYS GO ON | 551 |
EPILOGUE | 569 |
THE LENINGRAD AFFAIR | 571 |
SOURCE NOTES | 585 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 597 |
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