ctjosey 's review for:

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson

4.0

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"Years later, a German soldier told Eliasberg, '[The Seventh Symphony] had a slow but powerful effect on us. The realization began to dawn that we would never take Leningrad.' That was enough itself. 'But something else started to happen. We began to see that there was something stronger than starvation, fear, and death--the will to stay human.'"