Leningrad's Blockade - 900 Heroic Days 1941-1944

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Leningrad's Blockade - 900 Heroic Days 1941-1944
Authors: Komarov, N Ya & Kumanev, G A
Published: Moscow, 2004, Izdatelstvo "Olma-Press"
Format: 573 pages
Printing: 5,000
ISBN: 5-224-04225-9

Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the lifting of the German blockade of Leningrad. Presented by its authors as a Historical Diary with Commentaries.
It is profusely illustrated (B&W), and has a separate entry for each day from Sunday June 22, 1941 (1st day of the war) to Thursday January 27, 1944 (950th day of the war). Finally the long-awaited account of the blocakde seen from the Soviet side.

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