The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

At a huge cost, the Red Army and the civilian population of Leningrad ultimately endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against constant bombing, shelling and starvation. Throughout the siege, Soviet forces tried to break the German lines and restore contact with the garrison. ‘To Besiege a City’ charts the first of these offensives which began in January 1942 and was followed by repeated assaults.