The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
is another extraordinary historical fiction about World War II and innocence in the face of
evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his
aunt Beatrix a servant in a wealthy Austrian household. But this is no ordinary time for it
is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching and this is no ordinary house for this
is the Berghof the home of Adolf Hitler. Pierrot is quickly taken under Hitler's wing and
thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror secrets and betrayal from
which he may never be able to escape.
