The Forbidden Garden: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in Besieged Leningrad

by Simon Parkin

From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world's first seed bank who were faced with an impossible choice during the Second World War's Siege of Leningrad: eat the seeds to stave off starvation, or protect their life's work to potentially end world hunger?In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded Leningrad with a plan to besiege the Russian...

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 179718394X
• ISBN13: 9781797183947
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Length: 1 Pages