The boys who challenged Hitler : Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
(2015)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
TEEN/940.53489/HOOSE,P

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Teen TEEN/940.53489/HOOSE,P Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2015
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

viii, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780374300227 (hardback), 0374300224 (hardback), 9780374300227, 0374300224, 9781518116445, 1518116442
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

OPROP! -- The RAF Club -- The Churchill Club -- Learning to Breathe -- Flames of Resistance -- To Arms -- Whipped Cream and Steel -- An Evening Alone -- The Nibe Offensive -- Grenades -- No Turning Back -- King Hans Gades Jail -- Walls and Windows -- At Large Again? -- Nyborg State Prison -- First Hours of Freedom -- Better on the Inside -- Our Evening with Mr. Churchill -- Epilogue: The Times that Followed

"The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--

"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Interweaving his own narrative with the recollections of Knud himself, here is Phil Hoose's inspiring story of these young war heroes"--

970L

Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 2015

Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book, 2016