A review by nerfherder86
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

5.0

Excellent telling of the Churchill Club, which formed in Denmark to oppose the Nazi occupation: it was comprised of a few high school boys who resented that no adults, especially the Danish government, were doing anything to resist the German occupation. The government had accepted surrender and occupation in order to save lives, because the Nazis had given them an ultimatum, basically, of surrender peacefully or we will flatten your cities! But to these patriotic boys, who saw nearby Norway not giving in and fighting back, this behavior was unacceptable. So they began small, with little strikes they could do on their bicycles, like changing all the German directional signs and racing off. They got bolder and did more things, like stealing guns and setting fire to German trucks, always under the extreme danger of getting caught. Very exciting true story, much of it told in first person from interviews the author made with Mr. Pedersen, who died shortly after the book was finished. Full of well-placed black and white photos and maps, extensive sources.