Frozen Tears

The Blockade and Battle of Leningrad

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Albert Pleysier

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Frozen Tears unfolds the events that led to Germany's military invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and explores Germany's advance on Leningrad and the blockade that was established against the city. This story examines the lives of the city's inhabitants who suffered from the consequences of the siege that finally ended in 1944. By this time more than one million Leningraders had lost their lives.The lives of public figures are often used by historians to tell the events of the past. The decisions they made and the actions that were taken are discussed and analyzed. However, the experiences of commoners—men, women, and children not mentioned in textbooks—often illustrate better the events of the past. In Frozen Tears, Albert Pleysier has taken the contents of diaries, letters, essays, and interviews written or given by persons who lived in Leningrad during the siege and placed them in their historical setting. The result is a very personal history of the siege of Leningrad.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-09-26
Mått161 x 239 x 19 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor190
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761841258

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Chapter 1 1)Prelude to the InvasionChapter 2 2)Invasion and ResponseChapter 3 3)Increasing the Interior DefenseChapter 4 4)Industry and EvacuationChapter 5 5)Advance on LeningradChapter 6 6)EncirclementChapter 7 7)Hunger and StarvationChapter 8 8)Blockade ArtistChapter 9 9)Enemy BombardmentChapter 10 10)The Road of LifeChapter 11 11)Assistance and EncouragementChapter 12 12)Letters Never SentChapter 13 13)Evacuating PeopleChapter 14 14)Increasing the Food SupplyChapter 15 15)Indomitable LeningradersChapter 16 16)Breach in the BlockadeChapter 17 17)Summer of 1943Chapter 18 18)Leningrad's GuerrillasChapter 19 19)The Blockade Ends

Albert Pleysier is among those who believe that the historian is part storyteller and that stories are often best told by ordinary people who experienced them. Pleysier's work is a concise and readable summary of the blockade of Leningrad that includes six brief first-hand survival accounts that Pleysier and Russian archaeologist Aleksei Vinogradov first included in a collection published in Russian in 2005.