A review by morbidcai
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
2 things:
1. Shostakovich's 7th Symphony helped Russia get US aid during their gruesome battle against the Nazis.
2. The library stayed open in Leningrad, despite the city barely hanging on. The librarians checked out books, exchanged books for food, and collected books among the rubble. They also answered questions such as what are alternatives for food. Something else: the city was filled with the dying and the dead. The librarians also dragged people who died while they were reading a book, to the streets to be picked up and be put into the mass graves.
1. Shostakovich's 7th Symphony helped Russia get US aid during their gruesome battle against the Nazis.
2. The library stayed open in Leningrad, despite the city barely hanging on. The librarians checked out books, exchanged books for food, and collected books among the rubble. They also answered questions such as what are alternatives for food. Something else: the city was filled with the dying and the dead. The librarians also dragged people who died while they were reading a book, to the streets to be picked up and be put into the mass graves.