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Acknowledgements

A great many people helped to create this book. First, I must thank my agent Peter Robinson for raising, and my editors Bill Swainson, George Gibson and Ludger Ikas for providing, the funds that allowed me to work on it for rather longer than the 872 days the siege itself lasted. Events on the scale of the siege of Leningrad can never be done full justice, but I was exceptionally fortunate in being granted the time and resources to make the attempt.

Second, my heartfelt thanks go to the five scholars — Dr Tatiana Voronina of the European University at St Petersburg, Maria Svichenskaya of the National Library of Russia, Dr Lyuba Vinogradova, Pavel Rakitin of the Russian State University for the Humanities and Michelle Miles of Freiburg’s Albert-Ludwigs-Universität — who took time out from their own projects to take part in my research. As well as combing archives in Russia and Germany they advised, prompted and acted as sounding boards as I developed my ideas. Equally patient and insightful were Masha Bozunova, Masha Eremenko, Masha Kaminskaya, Dr Elena Khlinovskaya-Rockhill and Sofia Savage, who helped to translate dozens of voluminous oral histories and siege diaries. The credit for whatever merit this book possesses belongs in large part to all of them.

I was also extremely lucky in the encouragement given by fellow historians, chief among them Drs Sergei Yarov and Aleksandr Chistikov of the Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Both were extraordinarily generous with their time and expertise, fielding rafts of questions and pointing me towards the latest debates and publications. In Freiburg Professor Ulrich Herbert and Dr Cornelia Brink fascinatingly explained German perspectives on the siege. In London Professors Orlando Figes and David Kirby, Simon Sebag Montefiore and in particular Antony Beevor — velikiy vozhd to all those of us posted to the Eastern Front — passed on wisdom and contacts and generally enlivened the long and solitary business of writing. So, too, did Judith Flanders, who found time between her own books expertly to pummel the final manuscript into shape. The last edits came under the eagle eyes of Richard Collins, Anna Simpson of Bloomsbury and Bernd Rullkotter, translator of the German edition.