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Title: Poor!
Review: The review that stated that Salisbury writes about 'The first 90 Days' is correct!Leningrad was a siege and a stage for several battles arround its outskirts and... no map! No geography!What the author does most is to describe the hardships of his "peers": "poets", "writers", "artists", "playwrights" and "intelligentsia" like they were la créme de la créme -(and this says a bit about the author).The Germans are barely mentioned (not that I am a fan!)."Guns" and "cannons" are they the same?"tommy guns" instead of submachineguns...The most infamous close air support pilot of all time, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the one that hit the "Marat" is not mentioned, but insignificant "intelectual" bums with silly hats do.Bad book by a Pulitzer prize winner. I do not recommend this book to any military historian.It does have plenty grim "stuff", much to the delight of the author's adored "intelligentsia".
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