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Jessie Childs: Leningrad under Siege, 6 February 2025

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege 
by Simon Parkin.
Sceptre, 360 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 1 3997 1455 6Show More
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“... Why he didn’t eat them, or give them to other starving citizens, is the question at the heart of Simon Parkin’s book.Shchukin and his colleagues at the institute dreamed that plants would save the world. Not only could they feed and heal people in the present moment, but their genetic traits, stored within their seeds, could be propagated for the ...”

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