Siege and Survival: The Odyssey of a Leningrader: 001 - Hardcover

Skrjabina, Elena; Luxenburg, Norman; Salisbury, Harrison E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809305119 ISBN 13: 9780809305117

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971

Synopsis

To be a Leningrader is to have a “distinction which is as rare as any human being possesses.”—From the Foreword

In the siege of Leningrad, August 1941–January 1944, between 1,100,000 and 1,500,000 persons died, of hunger, of cold, of disease, of German bullets, bombs, and shells. The unprecedented magnitude and suf­fering of this most devastating of all episodes of war has been told by Harrison E. Salisbury in his recent best-seller, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. Yet, as Mr. Salisbury notes in his Foreword to this book, “the best way to feel the Leningrad epic is to read it in one of the diaries and that of Madame Skrjabina is outstanding in this regard.”

Elena Skrjabina, a young graduate student and mother of two boys, had lived in Leningrad most of her life. Her eyewitness account covers the first winter of the siege, her escape over frozen Lake Ladoga with her mother, two children, and old nurse, and the odyssey of her flight for sur­vival to the Caucasus, where in August 1942 she was captured by the Germans and again faced an uncertain future.

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Review:

"Written in unadorned but eloquent prose that is remarkably affecting."-- "Publishers Weekly" "A valuable human document."--"New Yorker" "Beautifully written and highly read-able, this is an outstanding work by an admirable woman.""--Library Journal" Beautifully written and highly readable, this is an outstanding work by an admirable woman. " Library Journal"" A valuable human document. "New Yorker"" Written in unadorned but eloquent prose that is remarkably affecting. "Publishers Weekly" " "Beautifully written and highly read-able, this is an outstanding work by an admirable woman.""--Library Journal" "A valuable human document."--"New Yorker" "Written in unadorned but eloquent prose that is remarkably affecting." -- "Publishers Weekly" "A valuable human document."--"New Yorker"

About the Author:

Madame Elena Skrjabina has been Professor of Russian at the University of Iowa since 1960. Norman Luxenburg, the translator, is Chairman of the Department of Russian at Iowa."

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0809305119
• ISBN 13: 9780809305117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196