The Boy Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler' is a rousing YA story taken ...I was excited to read a WWII book that was not focused on the Holocaust or France.  This book is about Denmark during the war and a group of boys who formed the Churchill Club.  Knud and Jen Pedersen, brothers, were the ringleaders and creators of the Churchill Club.  They did not like how Denmark’s government was reacting to the Germans’ occupation so they decided to form a club and take matters into their own hands.  They sabotaged the Nazi by destroying things, covering things in graffiti, and stealing weapons and ammuniciation.  The boys got away with their crimes for a long period of time but they were eventually got and put in prison.  The book covers their lives as angry schoolboys, saboteurs, prison inmates, and after war life.

I found the book to be fascinating.   The boys courage was remarkable.  This nonfiction book also reads more like a fiction book and includes primary source pictures and documents.

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