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.
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1968
ISBN 13
9780345016928
The Siege of Leningrad (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Battle book No. 5)
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.