Reading the great new WWII novel, The Triumph and the Glory" triggered in me an interest in World War II, especially the fighting on the Eastern Front. I asked around and was told Salisbury's "900 Days" was one of the best accounts of the Leningrad fighting, and after reading it agree, with the slight complaint that it concentrates almost wholly on the situation inside the besieged city. It is more a story of the citizenry of Leningrad and their ordeal than in the military aspects of the siege.