Publisher's Synopsis
Leningrad, 1941. Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. All the city's children are evacuated on trains that are meant to take them to safety, but first Viktor and Nadya are separated, then disaster befalls them both.
So begins a desperate race across snow and ice as one of history's most terrible conflicts rages. Can the twins find a path through the destruction all around, to find each other and their family once again?
Red Stars is a thrilling tale of courage, bravery and love, in the face of the most terrifying danger imaginable.