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National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. 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 almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943 1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and eventually one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied victory.
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Composers, Juvenile literature, World War, 1939-1945, History, New York Times reviewed, Composers, juvenile literature, World war, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, juvenile literature, Saint petersburg (russia), history, siege, 1941-1944, Biography, Music and the war, Music, MoralePlaces
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Symphony for the city of the dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
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