The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))

Phillip Hoose

ISBN 10: 0374300224 / ISBN 13: 9780374300227

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015

Beschreibung

198 pg. Glued binding. Paper over boards. A non-fiction account of a group of Danish teenagers who worked the resistance against the Nazi war machine. Inscribed, dated and signed by Phillip Hoose on title page. First Edition. Third Print 2015.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1513455927980

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))
• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0374300224
• ISBN-13: 9780374300227
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Signiert: Signed by Author

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Phillip Hoose is the author of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, a National Book Award winner, a Newbery Honor Book, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, a YALSA Finalist for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. His other books include Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; The Boys Who Challenged Hitler, a Sibert Honor and Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Winner; and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award finalist. Mr. Hoose lives in Portland, Maine.