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Book Review by Lois Sevareid
“The 900 Days - the Siege of Leningrad” by Harrison E. Salisbury There is no doubt in my mind that this definitive and scholarly study of the early phases of the German attack on Russia’s Northern Front during World War Q, and the subsequent siege of Leningrad, will be of interest to readers with a bent for military history and tactics. But it is to the common garden variety of reader that I urge its perusal. Skip the multitudinous footnotes (unless, like me, you are a compulsive reader of footnotes) and concentrate on Mr. Salisbury’s beautiful evocation of the spirit and struggle of the citizens of Leningrad during their long and terrible ordeal.
For those who see communists lurking in every shadow here at home, and fear the malevolence | of mighty Russia, it will be refreshing to follow the colossal errors and insane butchering of its able civilian and military leaders by the central government - at this time headed by Stalin, with Beria as his chief lieutenant.
It is no wonder that Mr. Salisbury is no longer persona grata with even the present Soviet Government. His careful study over a quarter of a century of every aspect of the Leningrad siege, after long years of research and observation in Russia in pursuit of this story, results in an indictment of the communist system of government itself.
What interests me more is Mr. Salisbury’s story of the Russian ’people, particularly those citizens of Leningrad who kept the mighty German Wehrmacht at bay, practically with their bare hands. Of course, more than half of them, a million and a half souls, did not survive. This book is a tribute to the courage, self-sacrifice, and almost unbelievable endurance of a truly great people, who had to bear not only the depredations of the enemy, but the treachery and evil of its own rulers.
Any American citizen feeling fed up with democracy owes it to himself to see what the alternative brings its people. You will survive this second-hand experience of the “900 Days” with renewed faith in democracy and great hope for the future.
enabled by the Spirit of God. The only offering that God accepts today is the one that has already been made for us when Christ died on the cross. We must believe in the efficacy of that offering.
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24)
“For through him (Christ) we both have access by one spirit unto the Father.” (Eph. 5:11)
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