The 900 Days Author:Harrison E. Salisbury Includes maps, source notes, photos. Salisbury exposes for first time role of Stalin's political police throughtout the war and the endless blunders of the military. But he celebrates with ardor the magnificent citizens of Leningrad, artists, writers, factory workers, mothers, old men, children--who struggled, starved and died in the streets, ... more »but did not yield. All city officials who were instrumental in city's survival were convicted and executed by Stalin...a culminating disaster.« less