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. Sur...
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Candlewick Press
2015
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