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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
3.0
This book was interesting but not to the extent that many other WWII books were for me.
The boys featured in this book were committing acts of defiance against the Nazis in Denmark for about 2 years before they were caught, captured, and jailed. I didn't have any background on Denmark's role in the war and how many citizens had a mutually beneficial arrangement with the Germans so they weren't necessarily motivated to put up a fight (their king surrendered 2 hours after Nazis declared war on them). It was shocking how little average citizens seemed to put up a fight and how these young boys had an overflow of anger and resentment towards their occupiers.
I kind of felt like the book lost a lost of steam after the boys were jailed and learning about life post jail for some of the boys was heartbreaking and depressing.
The boys featured in this book were committing acts of defiance against the Nazis in Denmark for about 2 years before they were caught, captured, and jailed. I didn't have any background on Denmark's role in the war and how many citizens had a mutually beneficial arrangement with the Germans so they weren't necessarily motivated to put up a fight (their king surrendered 2 hours after Nazis declared war on them). It was shocking how little average citizens seemed to put up a fight and how these young boys had an overflow of anger and resentment towards their occupiers.
I kind of felt like the book lost a lost of steam after the boys were jailed and learning about life post jail for some of the boys was heartbreaking and depressing.