To start with Granpda Guthrie was a funny character, I loved him, he was an old devil, a type of Grizzly Adams/Dukes of Hazards villain with a big heart who was bringing up his grandson. I read this for a college project, I found it different to any war novel I had read before. I would like to read more books like this in the future because of how good the content of the book was. Another part of the book that annoyed me and ticked me off was when the ten boys from the Hitler youth beat the four Wurzburg pirates for no reason even though the hitler youth boys didn’t even know that the four teens were Edelweiss pirates. The whole thought process and commitment to use a stranded British air bomber and a Jewish six year old girl to the safety of Switzerland. The coolest part of the book was the operation of trying to get Zelda to the neutral country of Switzerland. What I thought was the weirdest part of this book was that the six year old girl that the pirates saved, married the only pirate alive after the Wurzburg bombing, Fredrik. It was after that operation that all the boys in the Hitler youth that drank the water, got constipated and the bathrooms were full and lots of the boys did it in themselves. I laughed when the pirates did and operation where they put two year old Epson salt in the Hitler youth’s water tank. I was so ticked off and annoyed at this scene. I hated the part when a train pulls into the Wurzburg station, full of Jewish people going to a concentration camp, and a Nazi soldier pulled a mom away from her new born baby and when the mom tried to get her kid back the soldier threw the baby down on the ground and smashed its head and then turned to the mom, who was on her knees in tears, and pulled out his pistol and popped a cap into her head. I loved this book, but there was one part that just made me sick.

Cooper, was the best book I have ever read. Edelweiss Pirates: Operation Einstein by Mark A.

Operation Einstein by Mark A. Cooper