Leningrad fighting. 1941-1942. Belozerov B.P.

Book of the Doctor of Historical Sciences B.P. Belozerova for the first time in all details, against a wide background of the general course of confrontation on the Soviet-German front, tells about the first two years of the Leningrad blockade, helping the reader understand the true significance and tragedy of the battle for Leningrad, which has long been underestimated in a common series of battles and battles of the Great Patriotic War. The focus is the most important problem of blockade is food and ways to solve it.

The author in detail sanctifies the most important directions of the organization of the defense of Leningrad:

- the course of military operations, planning and conducting defensive and offensive operations;

- the life of the intelligentsia, workers, students and schoolchildren in a blockade city;

- the course of the partisan movement in the occupied territories of the Leningrad and Novgorod regions.

The book published the unique archival materials of the military and civilian authorities of Leningrad, as well as the Red Army.