The Siege of Leningrad claimed over a million civilian lives.
Her book goes inside the horror to reveal the blo.
All of this was promptly effaced, and Blockade Diary is the record what happened next.
Elena Kochina was thirty-four when the Blockade began, and reasonably prosperous--she had a job, a loving family, and an active cultural life.
For 872 days between 1941 and 1944, residents of Leningrad starved and scavenged, and the result was a humanitarian catastrophe with few historical parallels.
The Siege of Leningrad claimed over a million civilian lives