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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
What a great book! The story is inspiring and the author did a great job recounting it as a third party but with snippets from Knud Pedersen dispersed throughout. I never knew about the Churchill Club and it was so interesting learning about the Danish resistance and how it grew during World War II.
Definitely recommend!
Definitely recommend!
For not being a genre that I typically read, this was really intriguing! About one third of the way through I switch to audio book rather than the hardback I borrowed from the library. I really enjoyed learning everything that I did from this book, and would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys historical novels. It's a good balance between a narrator telling the story, and the subject themselves telling the story (the two worked together to write it, as stated in the epilogue).
Frustrated that the adults just caved and accepted the Nazi occupation of Denmark, a group of teens starts a resistance club. They wreck German cars, damage buildings, steal weapons, even damage a gun emplacement - all in broad daylight since their parents want them home on school nights. Their actions start to shake up the establishment and when they are arrested, others begin to resist as well. A good piece of narrative non-fiction illustrating how small actions can lead to big outcomes.
Yes, the first thing I did on my birthday was homework, but you'd have done it too if your homework was to read this book. At times our culture feels oversaturated with WWII stories, but this book tells a piece of European history I hadn't known much about, and the story is thrilling and fascinating.
Warning: I was kinda tired and overworked when I read this, so I think I would have liked it better if I had been less... tired. But! This book is very well done! I liked that Hoose really stepped back and led Pedersen tell his story, interjecting to clarify and provide background. I have not really read a historical book that did that, and it was interesting. I also appreciated getting a wide scope of all the roles necessary to creating a resistance; especially thinking about how we talk about resistance now, it's helpful and interesting to see how different actions, big and small, can be useful.