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‘Leningrad’ Series From Michael Hirst In the Works Based On Anna Reid’s Book About Epic WWII Siege

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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Hirst, creator of Vikings and The Tudors, is taking on one of the most epic and tragic events of World War II, the 872-day blockade of Leningrad.He will write the series, an adaptation of Anna Reid’s 2011 book Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944, which draws mostly upon personal diaries.

The project is a co-production between Range Media Partners and Svetlana and Alexey Kuzmichev’s Orangery Productions.One of modern history’s most harrowing stories, the Siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) is one of the deadliest blockades of a city in human history.

Nazi troops encircled the city two and a half months into the invasion of the Soviet Union at the height of the war, trapping everyone inside with no

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