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Title: Journalists are not historians
Review: Salisbury's semantics say it all: he refers to the Russian Army, and the Nazi Army. But either both are political, or both are not. German Army and Russian Army, or Nazi Army and Communist Army. This is one of many signals revealing his strange affection for a barbaric regime and his amateurish mishandling of the subject. I have kept this book only as a lesson in how not to write, or research, history.Journalists are not historians. I wonder if Solzhenitsyn ever read Salisbury - or vice versa - and what he thought. For a history of the struggle for Leningrad, read a historian.
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