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Anna Reid: Leningrad [2012] paperback Condition:Very Good For punchlinesWhen Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided instead to starve it out. Using newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid describes a city's descent into hell the breakdown of electricity and water supply; subzero temperatures; the