The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history.
The German forces were to hold the city under siege therefore starving the soviet defenders to death.
However, they did not expect such a heroic resistance by the Leningrad defenders...


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Sources:
Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms, a Global History of World War II
Jeremy Black, World War Two, A military history
Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint, Total War, the story of World War II
Georgy Zhukov, The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov
The World at War - By Mark Arnold-Forster