The Leningrad Blitzkrieg 1941-1942

Leningrad was not only an example of the greatest stamina of his defenders, but he became a martyr, in which about 700 thousand civilians died only from a lack of food. The leadership of the Third Reich and the command of the German army, he was doomed to a blockade, unprecedented in his duration and cruelty, and Leningraders - to deprivation, hunger and death. A huge grouping of the Nazis near Leningrad performed police functions to kill its inhabitants with hunger, which became the main weapon of the Wehrmacht. “Our ally is a hunger,” said the commander of the Army Group “North”, Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leieb.
This book, based on truly unique sources, opens the veil of secrets over the causes of the Leningrad blockade. It presents materials from the military diaries of two senior German officers - von Leieba and Colonel General Franz Galder, chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces (OKH).
The daily notes of the Nazi military leaders, starting from an attack on the USSR, and the description of the battles for Leningrad in 1941-1942 were carefully analyzed and supplemented by comments by the famous St. Petersburg military historian Yuri Lebedev