Most histories of northern sector of the Russian front concentrate on the siege of Leningrad, and focus little attention on the heavy fighting during the Wehrmacht's withdrawal into the Baltic countries. "Retreat from Leningrad" begins where those books end, with the massive January 1944 Soviet offensive which was designed not only to break the siege completely but also to destroy Army Group North. Enjoying huge superiorities in men and material, the Red Army attempted to crush two German armies which lacked more than a handful of tanks, contained a high percentage of unreliable foreign volunteers, and were hampered by Adolph Hitler's inflexible "no retreat" strategy. Battered but unbroken, the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Armies conducted a brilliant tactical withdrawal to the Panther Line in eastern Estonia, a position the army group would hold against all odds for six more months. Only the collapse of Army Group Center finally made the evacuation of Estonia necessary, and led to the...

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