City of Thieves by David Benioff

St. Petersburg, Russia, is the setting for this World War II story that provides sometimes painful descriptions of the desperation of citizens during the German army's siege of the city. A couple of young men who have run afoul of the law are assigned the task of finding a dozen eggs in a city which has very little food and no eggs. Their efforts take them behind German lines where they join with some members of the Russian resistance trying to make their way back to the city. Excellent novel.