Symphony for the city of the dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad /
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. S...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Anderson, M. T.
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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Somerville, Massachusetts :
Candlewick Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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