In the back of The Siege, Helen Dunmore includes a select bibliography of books she used when writing her novel. These include: Erickson, John (1975) The Road to Stalingrad Cassell & Co: London. Overy, Richard (1998) Russia’s War Penguin: London. Salisbury, Harrison E (1969) The Siege of Leningrad Secker & Warburg: London. Moynahan, Bryan (1994) The Russian Century Chatto and Windus: London. Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1999) Everyday Stalinism Oxford University Press: Oxford. Fitzpatrick, Sheila (2000) (ed) Stalinism, New Directions Routledge: London. Thurston, Robert W (1998) Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia 1934-1941 Yale University Press: Yale. Beevor, Anthony Stalin (1999) Stalingrad Viking: London. Schemann, Serge (1999) Echoes of a Native Land Abacus: London. Kochan, Lionel and John Keep (1990) The Making of Modern Russia Penguin: London. Ginzburg, Evgenia (1989) Into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind Collins Harvill: London. Mandelstam, Nadezhda (1999) Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned Harvill Press: London. Figes, Orlando (1997) A People’s Tragedy Pimlico: London. Shirer, William L (1960) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Secker & Warburg: London.

Helen hopes that having read The Siege, people will be interested in finding out more about the real-life events portrayed in the book. Other non-fiction books on the siege of Leningrad include: Henderson, Margaret (1989) Dear Allies: a story of women in Monklands and besieged Leningrad Monklands Library Service: Monklands. Scott-Clark, Catherine and Adrian Levy (2004) The Amber Room Atlantic Books: London. This is the story of one of the greatest of Leningrad’s treasures hidden from the invading Germans. Simmons, Cynthia and Nina Perlina (2002) Writing the Siege of Leningrad: women’s diaries, memoirs, and documentary prose University of Pittsburg Press: Pittsburg. Gillian Slovo’s novel The Ice Road, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, is partly set during the Leningrad siege. It was first published in 2004 by Little, Brown: London. Paullina Simmon’s novel The Bronze Horseman (2001) , which is also set in Leningrad, is available in paperback from Flamingo (London). The Saint-Petersburg.com website has information on the siege, referred to as the blokada. Another detailed timeline of the Eastern Front can be found on the World War 2 – Timelines website.