Blokada. Kn. 1 - Chakovskii Aleksandr Borisovich

The legendary novel-revelation of Alexander Tchakovsky. Prominent Soviet writer and journalist, war correspondent accurately and chronologically tells about the events leading up to the war, the defense of Leningrad, the terrible everyday life of the besieged city, the work of the Road of Life and the breakof of the blockade 1943.

A piercing and courageous story takes the reader to that hard time, when hunger and death were accompanied by unparalleled courage, soul-breaking horror - with a persistent confidence in victory. How on the threshold of painful death not to succumb to fear, not to fall to meanness, and to remain a man with a capital letter, personifying the defenders of the city?

The plot of the novel formed the basis of the film epic of the same name, dedicated to the resilience and heroism of Leningraders who survived and did not break down in a deadly confrontation with the enemy.