Deaths rise in besieged Leningrad

14th November 1941: Starvation takes a hold as the temperature drops

Two women collect the remains of a dead horse for food, Siege of Leningrad, 1941

It was now nearly two months since the Germans had cut off Leningrad and begun a siege intended to starve the population to death. They had deliberately bombed the city's centralised food warehouses, cutting the food supplies for the city at a stroke.

3.3 million men, women …