Another one of those I should have read...

a long time ago.  Number the Stars is everything that people have said it is.  I grew up at Elfinwild Presbyterian Church and a million years ago, our pastor, The Rev. Dr.  Robert F. Tuttle preached a beautiful sermon that included a story about King Christian X of Denmark.  I need to think a little about the details.  But I remember he ended the illustration with, "and the lives of the people were saved because they had a king who was willing to die in their place."  But he was a wonderful, eloquent preacher and he said it much better.  So much that it stayed with me, more than twenty-five years later.