The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad - A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege

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 Economist Book of the Year*

''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''
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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 st