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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH AND THE SIEGE OF LENINGRAD 
Series:   SYMPHONY FOR THE CITY OF THE DEAD
Author:   MT Anderson    Author info     
RRP:   $19.99
20% Off  $16.00
10+ Copy Price :  $16.00         
20+ Copy Price :  $16.00
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Older Novel 
Age:   14+ 
ISBN:   9780763691004
Category:   War Stories
World War 2
Music
Published:   14/12/2016
Availability:   Reprinting/No Due Date
The publisher has indicated this title will be reprinted but has not supplied a due date. This title can be ordered, but we currently do not have this title in stock.


DESCRIPTION:

A riveting account of the part Russian composer Shostakovich played in the Siege of Leningrad from award-winning author M. T. Anderson. From internationally acclaimed YA author M. T. Anderson comes the true story of a city under siege, thrillingly told and impeccably researched. 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. After three years of bombardment and starvation, culminating in the bitterly cold winter of 1943-44, more than a million citizens lost their lives. In order to survive, many residents burned books, furniture and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and, eventually, each other. In the midst of this bloodshed, Dimitri Shostakovich composed the Leningrad Symphony, a piece that both rallied and eulogized his fellow citizens ...and which would come to play a surprising part in the Allies' eventual victor



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