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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad Other warfare & defence issues is a book for theIn 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 plant library ever amassed the world's first seed bank. After attempts to evacuate