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Loved this new tidbit into history and the example of protest during a devastating time. The individual accounts were neat and demonstrated brutality but at the same time I had some trouble keeping track of names, places, and stories.
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This book was a quick and very informative read! I feel like it started quite slow and repetitive, but that makes sense since the stakes started off much lower and I’m sure many edelweiss pirates stories started in a similar fashion.
As the book carried on closer to the end of the war the narratives branched out their own ways and the content was much better at capturing my attention.
The images and letters/missives in the book were a wonderful addition. But the ending was the best part, in my opinion, where I finally understood why I’d never previously heard of the edelweiss pirates.
As the book carried on closer to the end of the war the narratives branched out their own ways and the content was much better at capturing my attention.
The images and letters/missives in the book were a wonderful addition. But the ending was the best part, in my opinion, where I finally understood why I’d never previously heard of the edelweiss pirates.
Couldn’t get past the first few pages. Written like the author is talking to a not intelligent child.
The writing style was a bit ham-fisted in the beginning, but it improved after about the first 50 pages and it really started to flow. I loved the account of the three characters and it was such a different, more in-depth look at life in Nazi Germany.
I've always been curious about the Edelweiss Pirates, and this author did the work, putting faces some of the members of this largely teenaged resistance group in WWII Germany in this well-researched work of narrative nonfiction. This book will pair nicely in the classroom with books like THE FAITHFUL SPY for a glimpse into what it was like to live under fascism and how frightening--but necessary--it was to fight against it. It'll especially appeal to young readers today looking for ways to stand up for their own beliefs.
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buen libro, aunque me costó agarrarle el ritmo.
interesante para conocer la realidad alemna de la 2da guerra, y darse cuenta de lo peligroso de las ideologías extremistas, además del hecho de que la guerra no trae nada bueno
interesante para conocer la realidad alemna de la 2da guerra, y darse cuenta de lo peligroso de las ideologías extremistas, además del hecho de que la guerra no trae nada bueno
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This is an incredible narrative following multiple Edelweiss members. It can get a bit confusing trying to keep everyone straight but that's the only negative.
I'm grateful for a book like this. It's eye opening, heart wrenching, horrible, inspiring, and sad.
I'm grateful for a book like this. It's eye opening, heart wrenching, horrible, inspiring, and sad.
Virtually the only internal resistance within Germany is generally touted as the White Rose led by the Scholl siblings here in Munich. Less known is the loosely affiliated group discussed in this book, the Edelweiss Pirates based in the Ruhr region. Towards the end the author makes the distinction between the two groups in that the former were center-right (I would like to learn more about this), while the ones covered in this book came from leftist backgrounds although as the author herself points out this leftist association was mainly due to their familial connections and less to overt organizing principles. Though personally enjoyable, the book is told in a style that it partly narrative and partly historical, and though a fairly good amount of research is on display it was difficult to get a personal sense of any of the characters in the book. Still, it’s a worthy chapter in the history of the Nazi regime and the scant internal opposition loosely organized against it.