To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Window to the West
Chapter 2: Stalin's Purges
Chapter 3: Flawed Plans for War
Chapter 4: Barbarossa Unleashed
Chapter 5: The Approach to Leningrad
Chapter 6: Sinyavino and Tikhvin
Chapter 7: Starvation: The First Winter
Chapter 8: Bandenkrieg: The Partisan War
Chapter 9: Lyuban: The Price of Optimism
Chapter 10: Lyuban: Attrition and Failure
Chapter 11: Summer 1942
Chapter 12: A Bloodstained Autumn
Chapter 13: Towards the Second Winter
Chapter 14: A Bitter Stalemate
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and served on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He has appeared on national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press. An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, his previous books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944–45 (Osprey 2010) and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (Osprey 2013) and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21 (2017). He now lives in Kirkcudbright in Scotland.