Surviving the Blockade of Leningrad - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Svetlana Magayeva, Albert PleysierTheme:Cultural Region/Eastern Europe, Cultural Region/RussianPublish date:2006-06-22Pages:216
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University Press of AmericaISBN-13:9780761834205ISBN-10:761834206UPC:9780761834205Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Russia, Personal MemoirsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.82Product ID:SCCKZM9A4P
In 1941 German and Finnish military forces established a blockade around Leningrad. During the 900 days of the siege, Leningrad was beset with aerial bombings, fuel shortages, and extreme starvation. At the end of the siege more than a million Leningraders had died. Svetlana Magayeva, just ten years old in 1941, witnessed the air raids and artillery shelling and endured the cold and hunger, Surviving the Blockade of Leningrad.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University Press of AmericaISBN-13:9780761834205ISBN-10:761834206UPC:9780761834205Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Russia, Personal MemoirsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.82Product ID:SCCKZM9A4P
Dr. Svetlana Magaveya, former researcher at the Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow, is an accomplished author and researcher of general pathology and pathophysiology. Albert Pleysier is Professor of History at Piedmont College. He earned his Ph.D. in European History from West Virginia University and is the coauthor of Battle for Leningrad published in Russian by St. Petersburg State University.
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