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Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 08:58:52 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: Russia at War


Actually, I found this book in the Columbia library yesterday and plan to
read and review it. One book that I always tell people not to go through
life without reading is Harrison Salisbury's "900 Days," the story of the
siege of Leningrad. People tried to sustain themselves with bread made of
rancid wheat and sawdust. When people died in the street from a combination
of the elements and malnutrition, other people were too weak to pick them
up and bury them. Despite all this, they resisted the Nazis. Salisbury, the
NY Time's most respected reporter in the 20th century, stated that the only
way to understand the resistance was the belief in socialism that persisted
through all the hardship of the 1930s. I also plan to read the book that
Mark recommended for a definitive history of WWII.

Louis Proyect


At 10:06 AM 2/7/98 +0000, you wrote:
>The book was 'Moscow in World War 2' by me and Cathy Porter, Chatto 1985.
>The Yefim Fomin story is unpublished but I have a zipfile if anyone wants
>it.
>I used to have a website but I can't be fashed with all that HTML stuff. I
>might
>try again but it feels like vanity publishing.
>
>Mark
>




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