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A review by kylasedai
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
4.0
An excellent addition to my growing arsenal of YA Nonfiction!
This is the story of the earliest Danish resistors of the Nazi occupation during the second World War - and what's special about them is that they were (mostly) a group of teenagers! This little-told tale follows Knud Pedersen (the founder and later spokesman) and the rest of the Churchill Club from their first exploits spinning signposts, through their more dangerous missions involving arson and theft, all the way up to the end of the war and the consequences of their actions both for themselves and for Denmark as a whole.
The book itself is a page-turner - you always want to find out what happens next! Will they be caught? What do their fellow Danes think of these boy saboteurs? Does Churchill himself approve of the Churchill Club? What happened after the war?
All in all, this is a great book to have on hand for any student that isn't so sure about how nonfiction could be interesting.
This is the story of the earliest Danish resistors of the Nazi occupation during the second World War - and what's special about them is that they were (mostly) a group of teenagers! This little-told tale follows Knud Pedersen (the founder and later spokesman) and the rest of the Churchill Club from their first exploits spinning signposts, through their more dangerous missions involving arson and theft, all the way up to the end of the war and the consequences of their actions both for themselves and for Denmark as a whole.
The book itself is a page-turner - you always want to find out what happens next! Will they be caught? What do their fellow Danes think of these boy saboteurs? Does Churchill himself approve of the Churchill Club? What happened after the war?
All in all, this is a great book to have on hand for any student that isn't so sure about how nonfiction could be interesting.