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Surviving the Blockade of Leningrad by Svetlana Magayeva, Albert Jan Pleysier, Alexey Vinogradov, S. V. Magaeva, Magayeva/Pleysier Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-7618-3421-4 / 0761834214 ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-3421-2 / 9780761834212 In 1941 German and Finnish military forces established a blockade around Leningrad. Their siege of the city would last almost nine hundred days during which Leningrad was struck by incessant aerial bombing and artillery shelling. The winter of 1941-1942 was especially severe. A shortage of fuel forc |