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The war within : diaries from the Siege of Leningrad /

In September 1941, two-and-a-half months after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad. Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for 872 days, at a cost of almost a million civilian lives, making it one of the longest and deadliest sieges in m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peri, Alexis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Year zero
  • Part I. Inside the ring: The ring takes shape
  • Becoming new people
  • The elusive I
  • Family life and strife
  • Part II. Exploring the island: The hierarchy of lives
  • The city as medical laboratory
  • In the mirror of history
  • Conclusion: After the ring broke.