Helmuth Hubner is seventeen years old when he is imprisoned by Nazis for distributing propoganda during World War II. A former member of Hitler Youth, he now faces execution for his crimes of bringing the truth to the German people during the war. This is his story. And the facts behind the story are true.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti charts the rise of the Nazi party in Germany through the eyes of a boy, showing how Hitler came to power by bits and pieces.
Review by Kathleen
Martin Conway goes to a private prep school in New Jersey, which he hates, when his grandmother dies, leaving him an old radio his grandfather had when he worked in the Amerian Embassy in London in World War II. This is a story of three times – 2019, when Martin is telling this story from the Embassy in London, 2003, when he is a student in New Jersey, and 1940, during the London Blitz. Before Martin’s grandmother died, she kept talking about a young boy named Jimmy, and one night when Martin falls asleep by the radio, he meets Jimmy, who is a young boy in 1940. Present day readers may know how the war turns out, but for some, part of the interest is in learning about the people the history books and encyclopedias don’t mention, like the firefighters, and the civil servants, and the secretaries, and the evacuees.
London Calling is an intriguing work of fiction, and readers will be asking themselves, when the time comes, what can I do to help?
Review by Kathleen
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