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From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity

'An astonishing story brilliantly told . . . It is as moving as it is gripping to read'
Jonathan Dimbleby, author of Endgame: 1944

'A richly researched and meticulously observed account of a little-explored corner of 20th-century history'
Guardian

'A fantastically well-researched history of science and sacrifice saturated in drama'
i

In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad - now St Petersburg - and began the longest blockade in recorded history. By the most conservative estimates, the siege would claim the lives of three-quarters of a million people. Most died of starvation.

At the centre of the embattled city stood a converted palace that housed the greatest living plan

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad

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From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists... Read more

    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 1/17/2024 12:10:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9781399714549, 978-1399714549
    ISBN10: 1399714546

    Non Fiction , Military History , Non Fiction

    Description

    From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity

    'An astonishing story brilliantly told . . . It is as moving as it is gripping to read'
    Jonathan Dimbleby, author of Endgame: 1944

    'A richly researched and meticulously observed account of a little-explored corner of 20th-century history'
    Guardian

    'A fantastically well-researched history of science and sacrifice saturated in drama'
    i

    In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad - now St Petersburg - and began the longest blockade in recorded history. By the most conservative estimates, the siege would claim the lives of three-quarters of a million people. Most died of starvation.

    At the centre of the embattled city stood a converted palace that housed the greatest living plan

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