Surviving the Blockade of Leningrad

By Svetlana Magayeva and Albert Pleysier

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761834206
• ISBN13: 9780761834205
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"