THE 900 DAYS: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury. 635 pages. Harper & Row. $10.
On Aug. 30, 1941, a powerful Nazi army captured the obscure Russian town of Mga, a railhead east of the Baltic. The Nazis thereby severed the last overland link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union, clamping an iron ring of men, armor and artillery around the beautiful city first raised by Peter the Great. Thus began the most murderous siege in modern history.
Beside Leningrad, the celebrated sieges of modern times are dwarfed: the...
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