Книга: Werth Alexander «Leningrad, 1943. Inside a City Under Siege»
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Серия: "-" The 900-day German Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II. As the sole British correspondent to have been in the city during the blockade, Alexander Werth presents a harrowing firsthand account of the savagery and destruction wrought by the Nazis against the civilian population of the city. His writing evokes compelling images of terror - the bombing of children's hospitals, mass starvation and cannibalism - with rich and well-informed first hand-accounts and commentary on the internal politics of Soviet party chiefs, soldiers and civilian resistance fighters. Both an authoritative historical document and a journalistic narrative of the overwhelming sadness, grief and futility of 20th century warfare, this is an invaluable look at one of the greatest losses of human life in recorded history. Издательство: "I.B.Tauris" (2015)
ISBN: 978-1-78076-872-4 |
WERTH, ALEXANDER
WERTH, ALEXANDER (1901–1969), British journalist and author. Born in St. Petersburg and educated in Glasgow, Werth started his career on Glasgow papers and became Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian (1932). He went to Moscow as Sunday Times and BBC correspondent in 1940, and from 1949 was Paris correspondent of New Statesman and New York Nation. He wrote mainly on France and Russia, including The Destiny of France (1937), France and Munich (1939), Leningrad (1944), The De Gaulle Revolution (1960), The Khrushchev Phase (1961), De Gaulle (1965), and Russia at Peace (1968). His Russia at War, 1941 – 1945 (1964), based in part on his experiences as a correspondent there, remains one of best and most vigorous accounts of the Nazi invasion of the USSR. Werth entered the Majdanek death camp with Soviet forces in July 1944 and was one of the first Western correspondents to report in detail on a Nazi extermination camp, nine or ten months before the more famous accounts of the liberation of German concentration camps like Buchenwald.
Источник: WERTH, ALEXANDER
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