THE 900 DAYS - THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD

The tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. The siege was the longest a great city has undergone since Biblical times. It was endured by more than three million people, of whom just under one-half died. The author exposes for the first time the role of Stalin's political police throughout the war and the endless blunders of the military. The epic of the 900 days is known only in part inside Russia, an d scarcely at all i9n the outside world.