Tatiana and Dasha Metanova are living in Leningrad during 1941 when Hitler's army invades the country. The sisters befriend Alexander, an officer in the Red Army who falls in love with Tatiana.
A comprehensive narrative of the siege of Leningrad by Adolf Hitler's armies in September 1941, his plan of eradicating the entire population of the city, and the determination of the Soviet people to persevere.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Leningrad in 1941, a novel of love and war follows the Levin family--twenty-two year-old Anna, her young brother Kilya, and their father, Mikhail--as they struggle to survive during the German siege.
