Ленинградский `блицкриг`

The book presents excerpts from the war diaries of two senior Wehrmacht officers: Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb and Colonel General Franz Halder. During the Great Patriotic War, the first of them was the commander of Army Group North, the second was the chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces (OKH). Leningrad became the arena of their personal confrontation. In the end, Halder won, convincing Hitler to abandon the assault on the Northern capital. For the sake of the capture of Moscow, the city on the Neva was declared a “theater of secondary military operations” and was doomed to an inhumane blockade, and its inhabitants to hardship, hunger and death... Daily notes of German military leaders, starting with the attack on the Soviet Union and a description of the battles for Leningrad in 1941 -1942, carefully analyzed and supplemented by comments from Yuri Lebedev. The materials are being published for the first time, and the book, published on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Leningrad, lifts the curtain on its causes.

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