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I Was There: The Story of a Boy Who Survived the Siege. An Ordinary Man's Memories of a Difficult Time

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I Was There: The Story of a Boy Who Survived the Siege. An Ordinary Man's Memories of a Difficult Time
19.99 €
Gennady Chikunov's autobiography is a memoir of how a happy prewar childhood is replaced by survival in besieged Leningrad, and how naive faith in the slogans of Stalinist parades and propaganda films evaporates in the face of genuine suffering.
Unlike many similar books that focus on the siege as an event "sealed" on both sides by powerful images of the beginning of battles and Victory, Chikunov's autobiography creates a special world of the pre-war, wartime and post-war past. This world, shown through the lens of a Soviet child, will tell the modern reader about how the late 1930s, the Great Patriotic War, the "deadly time" of the blockade were perceived, what the equally dangerous evacuation and hard life on the other side of the Soviet Union cost. And, finally, you will learn the story of the long and difficult return to the city where the author of this book lost everything but the memory of personal and common blockade tragedy.
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