A dangerous search for a dozen eggs
Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke to Holly Brooks of Capitol Hill Books in Denver.The siege of Leningrad is just one of the horrors of World War II — but it was one Holly Brooks had never learned about before.The Germany army surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad during the war, intent on starving the entire population to death.The siege lasted over two years, during which more than a million people died. It’s in that starving and desperate city that David Benioff’s novel, “City of Thieves,”…
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