Prit Buttar

To Besiege a City

Leningrad 1941-42

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Produktbeschreibung

A ground-breaking history of the siege of Leningrad, masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781472856562
• ISBN-10: 1472856562
• Artikelnr.: 71626075

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Maps Dramatis Personae Introduction Chapter
1: The Window to the West Chapter 2: Stalin's Purges Chapter 3: Flawed
Plans for War Chapter 4: Barbarossa Unleashed Chapter 5: The Approach to
Leningrad Chapter 6: Sinyavino and Tikhvin Chapter 7: Starvation: The First
Winter Chapter 8: Bandenkrieg: The Partisan War Chapter 9: Lyuban: The
Price of Optimism Chapter 10: Lyuban: Attrition and Failure Chapter 11:
Summer 1942 Chapter 12: A Bloodstained Autumn Chapter 13: Towards the
Second Winter Chapter 14: A Bitter Stalemate Notes Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

This is another masterly account by this excellent Osprey author, covering the first year of the siege of Leningrad.