Elena Vladimirovna Mukhina

Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, keeping a diary in which she recorded her hopes and dreams. Then, on 22 June 1941, Leningrad was besieged and life became a living hell. Lena records her experiences: the desperate hunt for food, the bitter cold of the Russian winter and the cruel deaths of those she loved, in this truly remarkable account of a terrible era in modern history