Air Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944

This book examines the full story of the German and Soviet aerial battles in the Leningrad sector during the siege. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War. The second largest and most populous city in the Soviet Union, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, was one of the three priority targets of the German invasion, Operation Barbarossa. A total of 333 large military factories were concentrated in Leningrad and, accordingly, 565,000 workers lived there, ...