The Days: The Siege of Leningrad -- book review. Harrison E. Salisbury wrote no fewer than six books about the Soviet Union during his journalistic career. The Days is a reprint of the edition that was banned in Russia, and no wonder. It implicated Stalin and his regime in the mass starvation and murder of a million and a half of his own people. · In this classic historical work, "The Days" written by long-time New York Times correspondent and editor Harrison Salisbury, the incredible toll in terms of blood, sweat and tears of the millions of Russian protagonists trapped by the Nazis in the city is bltadwin.ru by: 5. Detailed, but dry, this book treats of the almostdays of the German siege of Leningrad, focusing on the worst of it, , and cursorily with the rest. What came across most forcefully was the inefficiency of dictatorship and terror whereby the moods of the autocrat, Stalin, and his henchmen, Beria, Malentov, Molotov, could adversely effect the course of state action, in this case national defense/5.
The days: the siege of Leningrad Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. The days: the siege of Leningrad by Salisbury, Harrison E. (Harrison Evans), Publication date Topics. Click to read more about The Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Read "The Days The Siege Of Leningrad" by Harrison Salisbury available from Rakuten Kobo. The Nazi siege of Leningrad from to , during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was on.
For the people of Leningrad it was the siege of Leningrad, the days that were to begin about the seventh of September and go on unrelenting until very nearly the end of January Harrison E. Salisbury You commemorated this and memorialized it, or celebrated it, I might say in your book " Days." Nine hundred days. He has interviewed survivors, sifted through the Russian archives, and drawn on his vast experience as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. What he has discovered and imparted in The Days is an epic narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had as much to fear from Stalin as from Hitler. Like Russia at War, The Days is written by a US journalist, shortly after the end of WWII. It is untainted by Cold War rhetoric and propaganda. The siege of Leningrad was a very grim episode in Russia/the Soviet Union's very grim experiences of WWII. The book focuses on the human element of the siege, what the people endured.
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