To Besiege a City
Autor Prit Buttaren Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472856562
ISBN-10: 1472856562
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10: 1472856562
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Caracteristici
The book features a wealth of previously unpublished memoirs of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians. These accounts offer a fresh perspective on the battle and add the essential human dimension to the story of the siege, showing the suffering of ordinary people and their daily struggle to survive.
Notă biografică
Prit Buttar is an established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th century military history. His previous books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 (Osprey, 2010) and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (Osprey, 2013). His most recent publication was The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944. His books have been translated into Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Italian, Hungarian and Chinese. Prit originally studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. He latterly worked as a General Practitioner for several years. He now writes exclusively from his home in rural Scotland where he can also indulge his hobbies for wildlife and astro photography.
Cuprins
List of IllustrationsList of MapsDramatis PersonaeIntroductionChapter 1: The Window to the WestChapter 2: Stalin's PurgesChapter 3: Flawed Plans for WarChapter 4: Barbarossa UnleashedChapter 5: The Approach to LeningradChapter 6: Sinyavino and TikhvinChapter 7: Starvation: The First WinterChapter 8: Bandenkrieg: The Partisan WarChapter 9: Lyuban: The Price of OptimismChapter 10: Lyuban: Attrition and FailureChapter 11: Summer 1942Chapter 12: A Bloodstained AutumnChapter 13: Towards the Second WinterChapter 14: A Bitter StalemateNotesBibliographyIndex
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[An] excellent account.
This is another masterly account by this excellent Osprey author, covering the first year of the siege of Leningrad.
This is another masterly account by this excellent Osprey author, covering the first year of the siege of Leningrad.