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Article: The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944.
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- Parameters
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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By David M. Glantz. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 660 pages. $39.95.
In the aggregation of awesome--and awful--events that composed the German-Soviet War of 1941-45, and probably also in the whole history of warfare, the Battle for Leningrad holds the record for sheer endurance. It began on 10 July 1941, when elements of German Army Group North crossed the Velikaya River, 145 miles south of Leningrad, and ended more than three years later.
On 8 September 1941, a German division took Shlisselburg, an old fortress at the mouth of the Neva River a half dozen miles east of Leningrad, thereby cutting land contact between the city and the ...