This book is dedicated to one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century - the blockade of Leningrad. It is based on the searing eyewitness accounts of those days. Some of them managed to survive, others found their death on the streets broken by the bombing, in frozen houses, in endless queues for bread. But they all sought to convey to us a story about the torment they experienced, about resilience, about pity and humanity, about how people stretched out their hands to each other in a blockade nightmare...