About the book: 2015 / NEW book from the author of the bestseller “The Battle of Leningrad”. The whole truth about the bloody assault on the Sinyavinsky Heights and the grandiose battle on the Mginskaya Bulge, which in terms of ferocity and level of losses are not inferior to either Stalingrad or the Rzhev meat grinder. “Our bayonets on the heights of Sinyavin, Our regiments near Mga will be forever glorified in legends Under the machine-gun blizzard!” Four out of five attempts to break the Siege of Leningrad were made on a narrow strip of land south of Lake Ladoga, nicknamed by the Germans “Bottleneck” (Flaschenhals). In 1941–1942 the Sinyavino and Mgi area became the scene of fierce battles, during which the fate of the second capital of the USSR was decided. It was a real meat grinder in forests and swamps, with the overwhelming superiority of the Wehrmacht, especially in automatic weapons, communications and artillery. How did the Red Army manage to thwart the German plans to attack Finnish troops? Was there a chance to break the Blockade back in September 1941? Why did the first attempts to use the Tigers in combat fail? What price had to be paid for the failure of the Sinyavinsk operation of 1942, which the Leningraders dubbed “bloody” and the soldiers remembered “like a nightmare”? Is it true that the Sinyavinskaya massacre became the bloodiest battle not only of World War II, but in the entire history of mankind??