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M.T. Anderson

USA · Eastern Front — nonfiction for young readers

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American author. Symphony for the City of the Dead tells the siege of Leningrad through Shostakovich and his Seventh Symphony.

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Symphony for the City of the Dead 2015 · 456 pages

Shostakovich writes his Seventh Symphony inside besieged Leningrad, and a starving orchestra performs it to the world.

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1941 Siege of Leningrad