Breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad. Operation Iskra

The blockade of Leningrad was broken on January 18, but fierce battles for expanding a narrow isthmus nicknamed the "Corridor of Death", lasted another month. And in Soviet studies it is almost impossible to find a description of these battles. What were the plans of the Soviet command? What was achieved in reality? All these questions are first answered by the book "Operation" Iskra "".
books on the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad were published, but all of them were written without taking into account recently declassified Soviet documents. In addition, researchers neglected German documents and other sources that show the fierce of the battle through the eyes of the enemy. In the new work of Vyacheslav Mosunov, the first analysis of the data on both sides was made, which allows us to draw interesting conclusions. In addition, it was on the basis of German documents that the previously unknown facts of the heroism of Soviet soldiers and officers were first identified