Air battle for Leningrad. From the Baltic to Valdai. 1941–1944

The blockade of Leningrad is one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes of the Second World War. Despite the lack of forces and resources, problems on other sections of the front and weather conditions, the Red Army for two and a half years did not leave attempts to discard the Germans from the “cradle of the revolution”. In the book, on the basis of numerous domestic and German documents, memoirs of events and other sources, it is described in detail about all air operations and contractions that have occurred over several years at the Northern Theater of military operations. Not only about the raids of the Luftwaffe on Leningrad and Kronstadt, the Germans" attempts to cut communication through the Lake Lake ("Road of Life"), but also about the battles of Sinyavino, Lyuban, Demyansk, Old Russ, Great Lukes, etc. Gathered and systematized by the author unique The facts and details allow you to take a fresh look at the course of the famous and not very battles of the Great Patriotic War, to more deeply understand the reasons for the successes and failures of the Red Army