The 900 Days

This extensively researched history of the Nazi blockade against Russia on the Eastern Front during World War II is “a nonfiction masterpiece.”* The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died, starving or freezing to death, most i