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The Siege is a 2001 historical novel by English writer Helen Dunmore. It is set in Leningrad just before and during the Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II. The book was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002 [1] and for the 2001 Whitbread Prize. [2] The Siege is the first of a two-book series.
The siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944.
City of Thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff.It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad.It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer, a task that takes them far behind enemy lines.
Marttila is best known on her sketches of the Siege of Leningrad and the Road of Life, also found in the 2008 book Leningrad: State of Siege by the British historian Michael K. Jones. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Marttila was born in Petrograd , Soviet Union to the family of the Finnish-born military officer Oskar Marttila (1898–1938) and the Russian factory ...
Victims of the Siege of Leningrad (62 P) Pages in category "Siege of Leningrad" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
The searing story of Leningrad helps explain his thinking. Given the devastation World War II caused — an estimated 26 million Soviets lost their lives — such stories are widely available to ...
The book was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, [1] and shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Orwell Prize. [2] The Betrayal is the second of a two-book series. The first, The Siege was published in 2001 and is set in Leningrad during the siege.
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (December 31, 1918 – June 3, 2018) was a Russian-American author, actress and a sniper during World War II.A survivor of the siege of Leningrad, she married an American diplomat and came to the United States, becoming the author of 14 books.