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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Phillip Hoose
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Description for The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
Hardcover. A true account of seven Danish teens who dared to fight the Nazi war machine. Phil Hoose interweaves his own narrative with the recollections of Knud Pedersen himself. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DND; 3JJH; 5AN; YNH; YNJ. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780374300227
SKU
V9780374300227
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