City of Thieves, a historical fiction novel by David Benioff, is one of my all time favorites! I‘m a sucker for dark, disturbing, yet human accounts of war. It is both a coming of age story set in the World War II Siege of LeningradIt and a classic adventure tale that follows the adventures of two young men. Warning: this is not for the squeamish. It is violent and dark, but beautiful and poetic at the same time!