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  2. Siege of Leningrad - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. The Siege (Dunmore novel) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Alexey Troitsky - Wikipedia

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    Troitsky died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad. During the war, many of his notes got destroyed or lost so some of the latest chess problems he composed were never published. One of his most famous works involves analyzing the endgame with two knights versus a pawn, see Troitsky line.

  5. Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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    In the book, he is also reported to have said that in dedicating the symphony to Leningrad, he had in mind not the city under German siege, but "that Stalin destroyed and Hitler merely finished off." [17] Shostakovich did not like talking about what he called "creative plans," preferring to announce his works once they were completed. [18]

  6. City of Thieves (novel) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. The Betrayal (Dunmore novel) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Daniil Granin - Wikipedia

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    In 1979, he published Blokadnaya kniga (translated as A Book of the Blockade), which mainly revolves around the lives of two small children, a 16-year-old boy and an academic during the Siege of Leningrad. [5] Written together with Ales Adamovich, the book is based on the interviews, diaries and personal memoirs of those, who survived the siege ...

  9. Category:Siege of Leningrad - Wikipedia

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    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.

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