Matthew Tobin Anderson
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history—almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943–1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture,...