Leningrad: Siege and Symphony: The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin Starved by Hitler Immortalized by Shostakovich
by: Brian Moynahan

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 542 pages with index. In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. In vivid and compelling detail he tells the story of the cruelties heaped by the twin monsters of the twentieth century on a city of exquisite beauty and fine minds, and of its no less remarkable survival. Clean copy.