Sunday, 30 June 2013

The Siege by Helen Dunmore

I read this June 2013
Why: I found this in a charity shop and as I had read some of  hers before.
This one is about the 1941 siege of Leningrad.  I don't think I had really thought about how awful it must have been before and reading how it effects a family brought home the real impact of what life must have been like. So many people died that winter -blockaded in.  I also hadn't thought how dependent a city - any city is on the import of goods, as there is no farming, stockkeeping even smallholdings.  Chilling
9/10

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