Anna Reid

Kensington Central Library, Phillimore Walk, London
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This event ended on Thursday 12th of January 2012
Admission
£5, £3 concession
Location

Kensington Central Library, Phillimore Walk, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
High Street Kensington 0.08 miles

Anna Reid will speak about her latest book, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44, which follows the three-year siege of Leningrad during World War II.

Anna Reid answers many of the previously unanswered questions about the siege: How good a job did Leningrad’s leadership do – would many lives have been saved if it had been better organised?

How much was Stalin’s and Moscow’s wariness of western-leaning Leningrad (formerly the Tsars’ capital, St. Petersburg) a contributing factor?

How close did Leningrad come to falling into German hands? And, above all, how did those who lived through it survive?

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