Leningrad by Anna Reid
The siege of Leningrad is one of the great stories of extraordinary and heroic endurance in World War II
PRAISE FOR 'BORDERLAND'
'A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future..Borderland is a tapestry woven of the stories of all its inhabitants, recording their triumphs and their conflicts with the fairness of a compassionate outsider' * Financial Times *
'If you think you couldn't be interested in Ukraine - and I thought I couldn't - you should read this book' * Matthew Parris, A Good Read, Radio 4 *
'A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future..Borderland is a tapestry woven of the stories of all its inhabitants, recording their triumphs and their conflicts with the fairness of a compassionate outsider' * Financial Times *
'If you think you couldn't be interested in Ukraine - and I thought I couldn't - you should read this book' * Matthew Parris, A Good Read, Radio 4 *
Anna Reid was born in 1965, read law at Oxford and Russian History at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She started her career in consultancy and business journalism; from 1993 to 1995 she lived in Kiev, working as Ukraine correspondent for the Economist, and from 2003 to 2007 ran the foreign affairs programme at the think-tank Policy Exchange. She lives in west London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408819821 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408819821 |
| Title | Leningrad |
| Author | Anna Reid |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2011-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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