Anna Reid
Anna Reid is a journalist and author who writes primarily on the history of Eastern Europe. She was Ukraine correspondent for the Economist from 1993 to 1995, living in Kiev. She has written three books, including Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, and lives in London
Books by Anna Reid
Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
by Anna Reid
“The typical siege time household is a working age woman with elderly parents to support and children. Her husband is at the front, so she’s trying to support people all on her own. As the siege progresses, one by one members of her family will fall ill and she is often presented with this appalling dilemma of how to distribute the resources…she has the choice about whether to to give more food to the weakest and keep them alive or to distribute it equally or to write off the weakest.”
Interviews with Anna Reid
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Russia at War
by Alexander Werth -
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A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman, edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova -
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Reflections on the Russian Soul
by Dmitry Likhachov -
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Less Than One
by Joseph Brodsky -
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Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad, recommended by Anna Reid
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad, recommended by Anna Reid
Glorified by Russia, glossed over by the West, the siege of Leningrad is rarely seen for what it was – a tragic story of tremendous suffering and death. The author of Leningrad, Anna Reid, tells us what really happened there
Interviews where books by Anna Reid were recommended
The best books on World War II, recommended by Antony Beevor
The popular military historian Antony Beevor recommends some of his own favourite books about the Second World War.
