Leningrad 1943: Inside A City Under Siege - Plot & Excerpts
People in Leningrad have told me: ‘Of course, the Germans can, theoretically, take Leningrad. But it may cost them half a million men to break through our outer defences, and perhaps a million more before they get the whole town. And even then it’s not certain. Even if they got as far as the Neva, they’d still have to cross the Neva and get to the Petrograd side and to the islands. Even Hitler would be mad enough to try it, especially as he is bound to know that, sooner or later, he’ll have to pull out of here anyway – considering the way things are going further south – in the Smolensk and Nevel areas. He’s sufficiently crazy as he is, to tie up all these troops of his between here and Riga, when he is so desperately in need of troops elsewhere. On the other hand, we also could break the German ring round Leningrad – it isn’t really a ring any longer, but let’s call it that for convenience – if we were prepared to pay a very heavy price. But there are more economical ways of relieving Leningrad.
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