{"product_id":"leningrad-siege-and-symphony-the-story-of-the-great-city-terrorized-by-stalin-starved-by-hitler-immortalized-by-shostakovich-paperback","title":"Leningrad: Siege and Symphony: The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Moynahan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \"gripping story\" of a Nazi blockade, a Russian composer, and a ragtag band of musicians who fought to keep up a besieged city's morale (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 872 days during World War II, the German Army encircled the city of Leningrad--modern-day St. Petersburg--in a military operation that would cripple the former capital and major Soviet industrial center. Palaces were looted and destroyed. Schools and hospitals were bombarded. Famine raged and millions died, soldiers and innocent civilians alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the backdrop of this catastrophe, historian Brian Moynahan tells the story of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Seventh Symphony was first performed during the siege and became a symbol of defiance in the face of fascist brutality. Titled \"Leningrad\" in honor of the city and its people, the work premiered on August 9, 1942--with musicians scrounged from frontline units and military bands, because only twenty of the orchestra's hundred members had survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this compelling human story of art and culture surviving amid chaos and violence, \u003ci\u003eLeningrad: Siege and Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e \"brings new depth and drama to a key historical moment\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review), in \"a narrative that is by turns painful, poignant and inspiring\" (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He reaches into the guts of the city to extract some humanity from the blood and darkness, and at its best \u003ci\u003eLeningrad \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the heartbreak, agony and small salvations in both death and survival . . . Moynahan's descriptions of the battlefield, which also draw from the diaries of the cold, lice-ridden, hungry combatants, are haunting.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Moynahan's\u003c\/b\u003e books include the much-praised \u003ci\u003eWilliam Tyndale: If God Spare My Life\u003c\/i\u003e. As a foreign correspondent, he covered fighting in the Far and Middle East and Africa, and was latterly the European Editor of the \u003ci\u003eLondon Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53457738727731,"sku":"9780802124302","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/leningrad-siege-and-symphony-the-story-of-the-great-city-terrorized-by-stalin-starved-by-hitler-immortalized-by-shostakovich-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}