TY - BOOK AU - Salisbury,Harrison E. TI - The 900 days: the siege of Leningrad PY - 1969/// CY - New York, Evanston PB - Harper & Row KW - Saint Petersburg (Russia) KW - History KW - Siege, 1941-1944 KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Saint Petersburg N1 - With hard-and supercover; Color maps on lining papers; Cont.: The night without end -- The summer war -- Leningrad in blockade -- The longest winter -- Breaking the iron ring N2 - The author chronicles the siege of Leningrad and describes the suffering of its people and exposes the role of Stalin's political police throughout the war and the endless blunders of the military. Included are events leading up to the siege and the "Leningrad Affair" which occurred three years later. Some of the data comes from Russian documents only recently made available.--from the publisher ER -