| ISBN |
9781782693093 (paperback) |
| Name |
Reinhardt, Dirk, 1963- author. |
| Uniform title |
Edelweisspiraten. English |
| Title |
The Edelweiss pirates : teenage rebels in Nazi Germany / Dirk Reinhardt ; translated from the German by Rachel Ward ; introduction by Michael Rosen. |
| Published |
London : Pushkin Press, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
282 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
Originally published in Germany in 2012 as 'Edelweisspiraten' by Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co, Berlin. |
| Summary |
When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he has a feeling the old man is keeping something from him, and sure enough when Josef gives him his teenage diary to read Daniel discovers a shocking story of rebellion and struggle. It tells how Gerlach left the Hitler Youth at the age of 14 and instead joined a gang called the Edelweiss Pirates. Their uniform: long hair and cool clothes. Their motto: freedom! At first the Edelweiss Pirates are only interested in hanging out and having a good time, but as the situation in Nazi Germany gets worse, they start to plan dangerous missions against Hitler's regime. The deeper Daniel dives into this past world, the more closely he feels connected to Gerlach, until he realises what the Edelweiss Pirates have to do with him and his own story. |
| Target audience note |
12+ years. |
| Language note |
Translated from the German. |
| Subjects |
Edelweisspiraten (Resistance groups) -- Juvenile fiction |
| Nazis -- Germany -- Juvenile fiction |
| Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction |
| Diaries -- Juvenile fiction |
| Teenagers -- Germany -- Juvenile fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Juvenile fiction |
| Youth fiction |
| Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction |
| Other Names |
Ward, Rachel, 1978- translator. |
| Rosen, Michael, 1946- writer of introduction. |
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