Captivating History
ASIN: B08DM1KNFK
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 70
If you want to discover the captivating history of the Siege of Leningrad, then keep reading...Free History BONUS Inside!From the early fall of 1941 until the winter of 1944, the Soviet city of Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg) was almost completely surrounded by the forces of Nazi Germany and Finland. Though the siege lasted just under 900 days, to the citizens of the Soviet Union (and Russia today), this event is referred to as the “900-Day Siege.” In those 900 Days, the losses sustained by the Soviet Union were greater than the losses of Great Britain (est. 450,000) and the United States (est. 415,000) combined for the entire duration of the war. The losses in Leningrad (both civilian and military) amounted to over one million deaths, according to American military historian David Glantz. Other estimates reach the same general conclusion. These one million victims of the Nazi siege ...