Albert Pleysier

Frozen Tears

The Blockade and Battle of Leningrad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Frozen Tears, Albert Pleysier has taken the contents of diaries, letters, essays, and interviews written or given by persons who lived in Leningrad during the siege and placed them in their historical setting. The result is a very personal history of the siege of Leningrad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780761841258
• ISBN-10: 0761841253
• Artikelnr.: 25692615

Autorenporträt

Albert Pleysier is professor of history at Piedmont University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1)Prelude to the Invasion
Chapter 2 2)Invasion and Response
Chapter 3 3)Increasing the Interior Defense
Chapter 4 4)Industry and Evacuation
Chapter 5 5)Advance on Leningrad
Chapter 6 6)Encirclement
Chapter 7 7)Hunger and Starvation
Chapter 8 8)Blockade Artist
Chapter 9 9)Enemy Bombardment
Chapter 10 10)The Road of Life
Chapter 11 11)Assistance and Encouragement
Chapter 12 12)Letters Never Sent
Chapter 13 13)Evacuating People
Chapter 14 14)Increasing the Food Supply
Chapter 15 15)Indomitable Leningraders
Chapter 16 16)Breach in the Blockade
Chapter 17 17)Summer of 1943
Chapter 18 18)Leningrad's Guerrillas
Chapter 19 19)The Blockade Ends