by Brian Moynahan · Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788416252824
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Leningrad: Siege and Symphony is a work that narrates the cruelties inflicted by Stalin and Hitler on the city, interweaving the rich cultural life of Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s with the purges ordered by Stalin and the brutal Nazi invasion. The book culminates with the premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony in 1942, a symbol of resistance amidst devastation.
Brian Moynahan was an English journalist, historian and biographer. He was born in 1941, the son of the dermatologist Edmund Moynahan of Guy's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a Foundation Scholar and editor of the student magazines Cambridge Opinion and Broadsheet. He graduated in 1962 with a double First in history.
