The Wireless War

The Wireless War: Soviet Union · station 5 of 13

Soviet Union

Galya, 9 · Leningrad · 1941–44

A girl in besieged Leningrad, raised by her grandmother.

  • Keepsake: the metronome that says the city still lives
  • Stands alone
  • Coming soon

The books

A trilogy and a companion novella

Book One

The Sound the City Makes

Coming soon
Book Two

The Seventh Note

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Book Three

What the Radio Said

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Prequel novella

The Beating Summer

Coming soon

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Tune the wireless to Soviet Union

Inside the story

The people and places

The people and places of Soviet Union open here when its first book does.

For parents, teachers and librarians

What is in the books, who they are for, and a copy of the England companion novella to read together.

Read the note for grown-ups