Overview
In 1941 German and Finnish military forces established a blockade around Leningrad. During the 900 days of the siege, Leningrad was beset with aerial bombings, fuel shortages, and extreme starvation. At the end of the siege more than a million Leningraders had died. Svetlana Magayeva, just ten years old in 1941, witnessed the air raids and artillery shelling and endured the cold and hunger, Surviving the Blockade of Leningrad.
- | Author: Svetlana Magayeva
- | Publisher: University Press of America
- | Publication Date: Jun 22, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 216 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0761834206
- | ISBN-13: 9780761834205
