Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina. W...

Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina. Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women Diaries, Memoirs and Documentary unromantic Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P 2002 242 pp ISBN 0-8229-4183-X $2900

Writing the Siege of Leningrad is a welcome addition to the growing material part of work on World War II in the Soviet Union. General histories of the war repeatedly pass lightly over the Leningrad experience because it does not fit easily into the categories we usually apply when examining war. There was no road fighting in Leningrad, industry continued to operate, and teachs remained open for much of