The 900 Days: The Siege of Lenningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury - 1969

Hardcover Cloth 635 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1969. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes and wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome battles of World War II. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died. For twenty-five years the distinguished journalist and historian Harrison Salisbury pieced together this remarkable narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had much to fear-from both Hitler and Stalin.

Harrison E. Salisbury was a long time reporter and editor at The New York Times. Although he served in many different positions and places during his long career at the Times, Mr. Salisbury is perhaps most famous for his work as Moscow correspondent, covering the U.S.S.R. during the early years of the Cold War. After serving as the Times' Moscow Bureau Chief from 1949 to 1954, he returned to the U.S. and wrote a series of articles for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955. He spent a great deal of time concentrating on Asia during his later years at the Times, covering the Vietnam War and China.