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

Describes the concert played in August 1942 by a cobbled-together group of starving survivorswho were cold, sick and weak from Stalin's purges and the Nazi invasion of Russiawhich offered a glimmer of hope during the darkest days of World War II. By the author of William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life. 25,000 first printing.