Anna Reid
Kensington Central Library, Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 7pm
Anna Reid discusses Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44.
Anna Reid will speak about her latest book, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44, which follows the three-year siege of Leningrad during World War II. Anna Reid answers many of the previously unanswered questions about the siege. How good a job did Leningrad’s leadership do – would many lives have been saved if it had been better organised? How much was Stalin’s and Moscow’s wariness of western-leaning Leningrad (formerly the Tsars’ capital, St Petersburg) a contributing factor? How close did Leningrad come to falling into German hands? And, above all, how did those who lived through it survive? (SallyConnew)… (more)
Anna Reid will speak about her latest book, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44, which follows the three-year siege of Leningrad during World War II. Anna Reid answers many of the previously unanswered questions about the siege. How good a job did Leningrad’s leadership do – would many lives have been saved if it had been better organised? How much was Stalin’s and Moscow’s wariness of western-leaning Leningrad (formerly the Tsars’ capital, St Petersburg) a contributing factor? How close did Leningrad come to falling into German hands? And, above all, how did those who lived through it survive? (SallyConnew)… (more)
6