The Boys who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club, by Phillip Hoose
Friday, June 1, 2012
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
The Boys who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club, by Phillip Hoose
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This non-fiction title gave me a look at a part of World War II history about which I knew next to nothing. The photographs are amazing, and thinking of young high schoolers pulling off these acts of sabotage and sparking the Danish resistance is nothing short of remarkable.
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler was very good. It was both readable and informative, which is important in a non-fiction book. The sections about other key events, people, and places within the story of the Churchill Club were great, since they were like footnotes and provided more information that helped me understand the broader experience of Denmark an World War II. I also enjoyed how it was about a group of teenage boys who took action against their German occupier when they could have been passive, like the rest of their countrymen and women.
My favorite part of the book was how the author’s journey of telling the story and his experience with interviewing Knud Pederson was part of the start and finish of the book. I also liked how the epilogue told what happened to every major person who appeared in the book, especially since it was prefaced by mentioning the scars that the boys bore after their resistance work.
As a whole, I enjoyed this book, and would recommend it to anyone who likes the little known and obscure parts of history, history as a whole, and WWII.
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