Author: Parkin, Simon

Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)

Published on 14 August 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton (Sceptre) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 384 pages
129 x 198 x 26 | 272g

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2025An Economist Book of the Year’An astonishing story brilliantly told . . . It is as moving as it is gripping to read’Jonathan Dimbleby, author of Endgame 1944’A richly researched and meticulously observed account of a little-explored corner of 20th-century history’Guardian’A fantastically well-researched history of science and sacrifice saturated in drama’iWINNER OF THE CBHL LITERATURE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN HISTORYIn the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad – now St Petersburg – and began the longest blockade in recorded history. By the most conservative estimates, the siege would claim the lives of three-quarters of a million people