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  1. 16 books based on 16 votes: The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons, Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid, The 900 Days: The ...

  2. Jan 1, 2006 · To hold on to sanity when the Luftwaffe's bombs began to fall, she burned to memory, brushstroke by brushstroke, these exquisite artworks: the nude figures of women, the angels, the serene Madonnas that had so shortly before gazed down upon her.

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  3. Saving Leningrad, also known as Battle of Leningrad ( Russian: Спасти Ленинград) is a 2019 Russian war drama film written about the Road of Life, the tragedy of blood " barge 752", which took place on the night of September 16 to 17, 1941, at Lake Ladoga.

  4. Jul 25, 2020 · In The Siege of Leningrad: A Captivating Guide to the Siege of Leningrad and Its Impact on World War 2 and the Soviet Union, you will discover topics such as: Before the Siege; Horror Approaches; Attack; Civilians and Defense; The Battlefield; Inside the City; Inside the City; Stalin Returns to His Old Methods; And much, much more!

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  5. Dec 11, 2011 · Glorified by Russia, glossed over by the West, the siege of Leningrad is rarely seen for what it was – a tragic story of tremendous suffering and death. The author of Leningrad, Anna Reid, tells us what really happened there. Interview by Alec Ash.

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  6. Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) endured one of history’s great sieges when Hitler’s armies surrounded it in 1941. By the time the Red Army liberated it in 1944, the city’s thriving population of 2.5 million had been reduced by evacuations, bloodshed, and starvation.

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  8. Nov 6, 2023 · Leningrad – today known as St Petersburg – was a key military and industrial target in the early years of the Second World War. But the city also held a psychological attraction for the invading armies of the Third Reich in the summer of 1941.