Leningrad
(Sprache: Englisch)
Reid's account is a gripping, authoritative narrative history of this dramatic moment in the 20th century, interwoven with indelible personal accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists and memoirists on both sides.
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Reid's account is a gripping, authoritative narrative history of this dramatic moment in the 20th century, interwoven with indelible personal accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists and memoirists on both sides.
Autoren-Porträt von Anna Reid
Anna Reid was born in 1965, read law at Oxford and Russian History at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She started her career in consultancy and business journalism; from 1993 to 1995 she lived in Kiev, working as Ukraine correspondent for the Economist, and from 2003 to 2007 ran the foreign affairs programme at the think-tank Policy Exchange. She lives in west London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anna Reid
- Maße: 12,9 x 3,4 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1408822415
- ISBN-13: 9781408822418
Sprache:
Englisch
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A masterpiece of modern historical writing. With a clear, unsentimental eye and in calm prose, she describes the horrors of the most lethal siege in modern history ... A terrible story, superbly researched and beautifully told Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year Magisterial Orlando Figes, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year An admirable retelling of the extraordinary story of the 1941-44 siege ... The author has assembled the testimony of many unfamiliar witnesses, and vividly portrays what some of us consider the most dreadful saga of the Second World War Max Hastings, The Times Books of the Year Impeccably researched, well-paced and beautifully written, Leningrad marks a new benchmark in the study of the subject and a more nuanced, objective interpretation for a new century Financial Times A moving and breathtaking examination of the terrible price extorted by unfettered political power on both sides -- Sally Moris Daily Mail
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