01313cam a2200253 4500 127802124 TxAuBib 20100615120000.0 080118s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008921305 9780465011537 hdc. 0465011535 hdc. DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Jones, Michael K. Leningrad : state of siege / Michael Jones. New York : Basic Books, 2008. xxii, 322 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports ; 24 cm. "Published in Great Britain in 2008 by John Murray"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and index. During the famed 900-day siege of Leningrad, the German High Command deliberately planned to eradicate the city's population through starvation. Viewing the Slavs as sub-human, Hitler embarked on a vicious program of ethnic cleansing. By the time the siege ended in January 1944, almost a million people had died. Those who survived would be marked permanently by what they endured as the city descended into chaos. 20110610. Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944. Saint Petersburg (Russia) Biography.