Hitler's Secret

Hitler’s Secret

By: William Osborn

                “Hitler’s Secret,” a strange but neat type of book. That takes place during World War 2. It focused on two teenagers who were recruited for the British Army. Just a note, it is a hard book to follow, but if the reader gets far enough it starts to get interesting. The main characters “Otto,” a fifteen year-old boy, and “Leni” a fourteen year-old girl, are spies trying to capture someone from Germany to what’s left of Britain. Their journey will take them all over Germany, looking for one man that may be able to stop Nazism and possibly Hitler.

                It starts off with Otto, trying to get away from German officers. He is running as fast as he can away from the soldiers hoping they won’t see where he’s trying to go. Suddenly, an overhead plane dove down and shot at Otto trying to kill him. Luckily the shots missed, but he dropped the only thing he had left of his family, his father’s gold wrist watch, he scrambled to get it, but the soldiers saw him, so he made a drastic decision to run towards the last British boat and leave the watch. The boat had started to leave without him. So, with the soldiers now shooting at him, he dove in the water and started swimming towards the boat. He soon caught up and climbed aboard, to meet the friendlies. He was headed to safety the capital.

                Meanwhile, Leni had been getting drove to the hospital, for an “urgent blood transfusion” transport. After ten minutes, she reappeared with thirty bottles of blood, put them in the trunk of the car and drove to Buckingham Palace, the capital in London. She got to the front gates, and told the soldiers of the blood transfusion required there. They let her in, and she gave the needed blood to the nurse. She could do nothing more, so she waited. However a little while later, she was approached by the Prime Minister; he studied her for a second and asked her to come with him. She followed.

                A couple minutes passed and the Prime Minister had both Otto and Leni in a silent conference room, he told them about a secret mission, he told them they needed to capture a man,  gave them small details on the mission, their disguise, etc. They then got a flight over to Germany where they would begin their dangerous mission.

                The book itself has a good concept and story line to it, but it’s too hard to follow, that’s why I say I wouldn’t recommend this book to many. The character names didn’t feel right, and the story was a little strange, but besides that it was an O.K book. I just feel as if it wasn’t right for a historical fiction book.