Literary response 1

I am reading the book "City of Thieves" by David Benioff. David attempts to recreate his Grandfathers story in Leningrad during ww2. His grandfather, Lev Beniov, does not remember much. He knows he killed 2 Germans, and he has a messed up index finger from the war. David Benioff creates a first person story about Lev and how he is determined to stay in Leningrad. The book is an eye-opener to the events in Russia and how awful the war was.