About the book: year / This book is dedicated to one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century - the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the scorching eyewitness accounts of those days. Some of them managed to survive, others found their death on bombed streets, in frozen houses, in endless queues for bread. But they all tried to convey to us a story about the torment they experienced, about perseverance, about pity and humanity, about how people extended their hands to each other in the nightmare of the siege…