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CCIP · 09-10-11, 08:03 PM

And if you want a good non-fiction book about it, I highly recommend Leningrad: State of Siege by Michael Jones, which is sitting on the shelf beside me here. A very sober, critical, and balanced look on the situation that gives due respect to the resilience of Leningrad's people through horrible conditions, made worse by often-incompetent political and military leadership (which has been so praised in Soviet literature on the topic). Which makes the city all the more deserving of its' "Hero City" designation, imo.

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CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	And if you want a good non-fiction book about it, I highly recommend Leningrad: State of Siege by Michael Jones, which is sitting on the shelf beside me here. A very sober, critical, and balanced look on the situation that gives due respect to the resilience of Leningrad's people through horrible conditions, made worse by often-incompetent political and military leadership (which has been so praised in Soviet literature on the topic). Which makes the city all the more deserving of its' "Hero City" designation, imo. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)