Eighty-two years ago, the Russian city of St. Petersburg — then called Leningrad after the founder of the Soviet Union — was under siege by German armies that had failed to seize and occupy the city ...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Hirst, creator of Vikings and The Tudors, is taking on one of the most epic and tragic events of World War II, the 872-day blockade of Leningrad. Your Complete Guide to Pilots and ...
In September 1941, as the German Wehrmacht sped east toward Leningrad, Josef Stalin struck a blow against sentimentalism in warfare. His advisers told him that the Germans were putting Russian ...
Amanda Vickery and Tom Service reveal an exceptional story of triumph of human spirit over unspeakable terror. In August 1942, a concert took place in Leningrad that ...
More than 40 years ago, the veteran New York Times correspondent Harrison Salisbury published "The 900 Days," an epic account of the German siege of Leningrad. Salisbury described how Stalin's ...