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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 Volkhov and Leningrad Fronts began an operation to relieve the besieged city of Leningrad on January 7, 1942, primarily with the 2nd Shock Army attacking across the Volkhov River in the direction of Lyuban. On January 17 the Army resumed its attack, supported by more than 1,500 aircraft sorties, and after penetrating the Germans' first ...
The siege of Leningrad ranks as the most lethal siege in world history, and some historians speak of the siege operations in terms of genocide, as a "racially motivated starvation policy" that became an integral part of the unprecedented German war of extermination against populations of the Soviet Union generally.
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.
Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg (Russian: Ли́дия Я́ковлевна Ги́нзбург; March 18, 1902, Odessa, Russian Empire [1] – July 17, 1990, Leningrad, USSR [2]) was a major Soviet literary critic and historian and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad. [3]
Part of the 'Flower of Life' memorial complex dedicated to children of the Leningrad Siege, showing pages from Savicheva's diary. Tanya and her diary have become an iconic image of the victims of the siege of Leningrad in the postwar Soviet Union. In 1968 a memorial was constructed in her honor which was later expanded to a memorial complex. [9]