Jonathan Mirsky

Whisper who dares

Devastating eye-witness accounts of starvation and despair — long suppressed in Russia— finally see the light, thanks to Alexis Peri’s painstaking research

issue 31 December 2016

  • The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad

    Alexis Peri

    Harvard, pp. 302

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