Table of Contents
Maps ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction i
Part 1 Invasion: June-September 1941
1 22 June 1941 13
2 Barbarossa 25
3 '"We're Winning, but the Germans are Advancing' 51
4 The Peoples Levy 73
5 'Caught in a Mousetrap' 91
Part 2 The Siege Begins: September-December 1941
6 'No Sentimentality' 113
7 'To Our Last Heartbeat' 139
8 125 Grams 158
9 Falling Down the Funnel 174
Part 3 Mass Death: Winter 1941-2
10 The Ice Road 195
11 Sleds and Cocoons 208
12 'We Were Like Stones' 232
13 Svyazi 252
14 'Robinson Crusoe Was a Lucky Man' 268
15 Corpse-Eating and Person-Eating 280
16 Anton Ivanovich is Angry 293
17 The Big House 303
Part 4 Waiting for Liberation: January 1942-January 1944
18 Meat Wood 313
19 The Gentle Joy of Living and Breathing 331
20 The Leningrad Symphony 356
21 The Last Year 370
Part 5 Aftermath
22 Coming Home 389
23 The Cellar of Memory 406
Appendix I How Many? 417
Appendix II 419
Notes 421
Bibliography 459
Index 473