Air battle for Leningrad. From the Baltic to Valdai. 1941-1944. Degtev D.M.

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, the memoirs of participants in events and other sources, it is described in detail about all air operations and contractions that took place 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 Lake Ladoga (“Road of Life”), but also about the battles of Sinyavino, Lyuban, Demyansk, Old Russ, Great Lukes, etc. P> The unique facts and details systematized by the author allow you to take a fresh look at the course of the known and not very battles of the Great Patriotic War, to more deeply understand the reasons for the successes and failures of the Red Army.