Words At War. July 17, 1943. “The Last Days Of Sevastopol”. Sustaining. A very well done dramatization of the siege of this valiant Russian city by the Nazis, and its brave defenders. An announcement is made that this was the first book in history that was delivered to its publisher entirely by cable.
The Last Days Of Sevastopol is a story by Boris Voitekhov war correspondent for Pravda in Moscow. He tells of a beautiful Russian naval city, Sevastopol, which fell to the Nazi’s on July 1st 1942 with not one building left standing.