Anna Reid

On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. During 872 days of blockade and bombardment about a million Red Army soldiers died in battle, and three-quarters of a million civilians – just under a third of the city's entire population - died of starvation. Anna Reid's Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-1944, is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal stories – immediate accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists and memoirists on both sides. Event includes a rare chance to see the Leningrad Album, commissioned from Leningrad artists by the city leadership in the summer of 1942, to thank Scottish women for their support. Part of Aye Write!

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