books about: leningrad     books:       The End of Sorrow: A Novel of the Siege of Leningrad in WWII3 reviews JV Love WingSpan Press, 2007 Wonderful Book I really loved John's book. It's a very moving tale of people trying to maintain their humanity and even enrich themselves spiritually in the midst of one of the most brutal conflicts in human history. The struggle to simply survive yields a number of thought-provoking insights from the book's characters, each of whom are grappling with their own internal and emotional challenges. A ...             AT LENINGRAD'S GATES: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North21 reviews William Lubbeck Casemate, 2006 A rewarding first hand account of the war and the years after I found this book to be a very warm recollection of terrible times. As a reader I felt I had shared in Lubbeck's experience. His story is told at a late age so it is interesting to see what memories stand out, I also followed his post war life with interest, both because Lubbeck comes out as a likeable man and because post war Germany was a troubled land in dark times, the war was over but the ...             Writing The Siege Of Leningrad: Womens Diaries Memoirs And Documentary Prose (Pitt Russian East European)1 review Cynthia Simmons University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005 An impressive compilation of writings by Russian women Collaboratively edited by Cynthia Simmons (Associate Professor of Slavic Studies, Boston College) and Nina Perlina (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University - and herself a child survivor of the Siege of Leningrad), Writing The Siege Of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, And Documentary Prose is an impressive compilation of writings by Russian women who struggled and ...             Leningrad: State of Siege5 reviews Michael Jones Basic Books, 2008 A highly recommended account of the Leningrad blockade This book was not an easy read, but one that needed to be written, especially considering all the new literature out there, in both English and Russian, about the siege. This work brings together accounts from dozens of sources and interviews to tell an altogether harrowing tale of how millions trapped within Leningrad had to struggle to survive. One of the main points this book will try to ...             Dutch Leningrad Neil McDonald Chess Press, 1997 In this book, part of the exciting new series of opening guides for club and tournament players, Grandmaster Neil McDonald explains the strategy and tactics of the highly fashionable Leningrad variation of the Dutch Defense. Through the use of model games for both sides, McDonald provides a thorough grounding in the key ideas, so that readers can quickly and confidently start to use the Leningrad in their own games.             The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad27 reviews Harrison Salisbury Da Capo Press, 2003 Superb example of how history should be written Salisbury gave us a monumental work of history: not just in scope, but in depth. This is a book which entwines the epic story with the human story, basing both on the kind of scholarship too few writers are dedicated enough to accomplish. I wrote a well-received history on the early satellites (The First Space Race, Texas A&M, 2004) which I was proud of, but I can't resist the feeling that ...             The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel (P.S.)68 reviews Debra Dean Harper Perennial, 2007 The power of the mind This inspiring story of remarkable endurance proved to be one of the most pleasurable reads for me this year. "The Madonnas of Leningrad" is a poignant tale of one woman's harrowing experiences during the 900-day Siege of Leningrad in WWII, alternating with events in her present-day life. In 1941, Marina Krasnova is a young museum guide at the magnificent Hermitage Museum. Anticipating ...             The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944 (Modern War Studies)10 reviews David M. Glantz University Press of Kansas, 2002 Highly detailed analysis As with most of the David Glantz's books this is a highly detailed analysis of the situation Leningrad found itself in throughout the Second World War on the Eastern Front. At times day by day accounts of unit movements and operations will make it a bit difficult to follow what was happening but it shouldn't take away from the fact that so much was going on from 1941 when the siege of the city ...             The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad1 review Harrison Salisbury HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS, 1969 Salisbury pulls Cold War punches The classic reputation of this book led me to expect more. Salisbury, a well-known liberal historian of the post-war era often willing to apologize for the Soviet regime, focuses on the first third of the siege, when the deprivation was greatest. Then he wraps up the last 600 days in a rush at the end of the book. Writing at the time he did, when the Soviet regime was still strong, the ...             SIEGE OF LENINGRAD: 900 Days of Terror (Cassell Military Paperbacks)7 reviews David Glantz Cassell, 2005 Great Introduction to the Seige This book is unlike Glantz's books on Kursk, Kharkov, or Mars in that it is a slim, larger-sized hardback with a lot of photos and color maps. He also doesn't go into a large amount of detail. This scope makes it a lot easier to understand - while I understood battles that Erickson (in "The Road to Stalingrad") describes but I was confused about. Also, it's a good primer before jumping into ...             The Madonnas of Leningrad Dean Debra William Morrow, 2006 One of the most talked about books of the year . . . Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memoriesthe details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchildher distant past is preserved: vivid images that rise unbidden of her youth in war-torn Leningrad. In the fall of 1941, the German army approached the outskirts of ...             Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition7 reviews Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998 Words of old... The Leningrad Codex (so named because it was housed in a museum in Leningrad, when it was Leningrad) is the oldest complete codex of the Hebrew Bible -- a codex being a book form, as opposed to scrolls; the other existing ancient codex, the Aleppo Codex, has a few sections missing; it may be older, but the incomplete nature (especially as it is missing part of the Torah) make its use limited. ...             Leningrad System: A Complete Weapon Against 1 d4: Black Repertoire for Tournament Players (Progress in Chess)2 reviews Stefan Kindermann Edition Olms, 2005 WOW!!!!!!!! I CANT BELEIVE HOW INCREDIBLE THIS IS!!!!!! First off, I have been torn deciding between the Kings Indian Defence or The Dutch (The Grunfeld is a waste of time as it is hardly seen on GM level and it is highly drawish-not that its a bad opening). I used to play queens gambit declined as it was relatively easy to play but I could not STAND the positions that arouse from it. It lacked excitment. The Kings Indian Defence I experimented with ...             Floating Cities: Venice, Amsterdam, Leningrad and Moscow6 reviews Diane Books Publishing Company, 1998 The Wrong Description I agree that this is not the correct description of the book. Floating cities is actually a series of drawings done by a young english autistic boy. They are absolutely fantastic renditions of famous buildings, made more incredible by the fact that Stephen himself has this overwhelming disability, and many of them were done by memory. This book will make you realise that disabilities are by no ...             Frozen Tears: The Blockade and Battle of Leningrad Albert Pleysier University Press of America, 2008             Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to Leningrad.(Book Review): An article from: Dance Magazine Elena Kunikova Thomson Gale, 2005 This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 461 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Vaganova: A Dance Journey from Petersburg to ...             LENINGRAD UNDER SIEGE: First-hand Accounts of the Ordeal Daniil Alexandrovich Pen and Sword, 2008 Leningrad was under siege for almost three years, and the first winter of that siege was one of the coldest on record. The Russians had been taken by surprise by the Germans' sudden onslaught in June 1941. This book tells the story of that long, bitter siege in the words of those who were there. It vividly describes how ordinary Leningraders struggled to stay alive and to defend their beloved city in the most appalling conditions. They were ...             Joseph Brodsky, Leningrad: Fragments5 reviews Susan Sontag, Czeslaw Mitosz Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998 Lemkhin's photography replies to Brodsky's verse. Photography informs the poetics of Joseph Brodsky, photographer's son and himself no novice to the camera. Mikhail Lemkhin's double homage to the recently deceased poet and the city of his -- and Lemkhin's -- birth should be thought of as photography's own reply to Brodsky. Lemkhin calls his _Joseph Brodsky, Leningrad_ a photo-poem; to this one might only add that it is a particularly ...              search for books 1941-1944, accounts, against, amsterdam, blockade, brodsky, cassell, complete, documentary, edition, european, facsimile, first-hand, floating, fragments, journey, leningrad, madonnas, magazine, memoirs, military, paperbacks, petersburg, progress, repertoire, russian, soldier, studies, tournament, vaganova books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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