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This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.

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736 pages. Wraps. Principal Personages. 16 pages of black and white

736 pages. Wraps. Principal Personages. 16 pages of black and white photographs. Maps. Source Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some wear to cover edges. Some page dislocation. Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908-July 5, 1993), was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II. He spent nearly 20 years with United Press (UP), much of it overseas, and was UP's foreign editor during the last two years of World War II. Additionally, he was The New York Times' Moscow bureau chief from 1949-1954. Salisbury constantly battled Soviet censorship and won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1955. He twice (in 1957 and 1966) received the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. In 1970, he created The Times' Op-Ed page and was assistant managing editor from 1964-1972, associate editor from 1972-1973. He retired from The Times in 1973. Derived from a Kirkus review: Like Napoleon, Hitler failed to conquer Leningrad but managed to inflict severe pain. This is the terrible story of the German siege--from October, 1941 to January, 1944 when the city was cut off from the rest of Russia and three German armies along with their allies "Generals Hunger, Cold, and Terror" killed one-and-one-half million people. Salisbury starts with Stalin's harried attempts to stave off war. It early seemed that the pattern of blitzkrieg would be "spectacularly repeated" at Leningrad, but the efforts of the untrained People's Volunteers to hold the Luga Line were successful for more than a month, and even a starving, freezing population resisted. Salisbury first visited Leningrad a few months after the blockade, and, apparently, he has been amassing relevant information ever since. Salisbury's panoramic narrative, interspersed with specific episodes, makes a hard-hitting book. Reportage along with an admiring evocation of the mood of the time.