The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
By
 Harrison Salisbury (1908-1993)

Harper & Row, Publishers
New York
1969

Portions of this book first appeared in The Reader's Digest in somewhat different form.
xi, [5], 635 p.: color map on endpapers, in-text double-page map and two full-page maps, 16 unpaginated pages, containing 28 illustrations; 24 cm. (inches). Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and red-stamped front-cover publisher's logo. Glossy, illustrated color dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon.  Includes Epilogue, Source Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Color map on endpapers.  Deckled fore-edges.

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"In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. The siege was the longest a great city has undergone since Biblical times. It was endured by more than three million people, of whom just under one-half died . . .  most of them in six months - from late October, 1941, through mid-April, 1042 - when the temperature went from 20 to 30 degrees  below zero, and there was no heat, no light, no transport, no food or water; the front was still active, bombs and shells rained down, and the cannibals - some say -became kings.  For twenty-five years Harrison Salisbury has been assembling the material out of which he forged this epic story"  [from the dust jacket].

Book is in Very Good Plus Condition: pages bright, clean , tight, and unmarked; front matter pages [20] with vertical crease, not obscuring any text.
Dust Jacket is in Very Good Minus Condition: top edge of the spine and back section creased and chipped and corners worn.




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