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Author: Paul Sanders
Publisher: Paul Sanders
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0953885836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British Isles have only been successfully invaded and occupied once since 1066: the German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940-1945. This book commemorates a defining period in the history of the islands and an important aspect of contemporary British history.
Author: Madeleine Bunting
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844130863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"When the Germans arrived on the Channel Islands after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940, they and the islanders agreed that it would be a 'Model Occupation'. But as the war dragged on and Britain appeared to abandon the islands to their fate, so features of Nazi occupation already widespread throughout Europe emerged. There were love affairs between island women and German soldiers, betrayals and black marketeering, individual acts of resistance, feats of courage and endurance. Every islander was faced with uncomfortable choices- where did patriotism end and self-preservation begin? What moral obligation did they have to the thousands of emaciated and ill-treated slave labourers the Nazi's brought among them to build an impregnable ring of defences around the islands?"
Author: Roy McLoughlin
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780952565901
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book shows that Islanders learned how to contend with Nazi regulations, how to survive and how to trust those Germans whose human side was often in contrast to the brutality of Hitler's regime." -- back cover.
Author: John Nettles
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780993265747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book was born of a series of documentay films about the German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940 to 1945 entitled The Channel Islands at war. It is also the fulfilment of an ambition to tell in much more detail than was possible in those documentaries, the true story of those extraordinary years"--Back cover
Author: Gilly Carr
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1526770946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith firsthand sources and archeological research, this study explores life inside Nazi prisons during the occupation of the Channel Islands. Through most of the Second World War, Nazis occupied the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, two British Crown dependencies in the English Channel. With extensive research, archeologist Gilly Carr has uncovered the enduring legacies of this occupation. In Nazi Prisons in Britain, she shines a light on the lives of citizen resisters who became political prisoners on their own soil. Carr explores political prisoner consciousness and solidarity through the letters of the “Jersey 21” and the diaries of Frank Falla, Guernsey’s best-known resister. Drawing on memoirs, poetry, graffiti, official archives, and material culture—as well as the words of war criminals, traitors, surrealist artists, and many others—she reveals what life was like inside these brutal Nazi prisons.
Author: Will Fowler
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016-04-04
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0750968796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Germany occupied the originally 'demilitarised' Channel Islands in 1940, Hitler ordered the area to be staunchly fortified with colossal permanent structures like Battery Moltke on Jersey. As it was the only piece of the British Isles in Nazi control, he was determined that the islands should remain German forever. Churchill was equally obsessed, urging numerous commando raids and harebrained schemes for the invasion and liberation of the islands. But when France was freed in 1944, the Channel Islands were completely bypassed. German troops were cut off from their supplies and the island population began to starve. Occupied for almost the entire war, these quintessentially English islands serve as a fascinating microcosm of what Britain might have been like under Nazi rule. With one German soldier to every three islanders, resistance had to remain at a low level: possession of a radio merited a prison sentence. The Last Raid is an atmospheric account of life under German occupation, as well as the political manoeuvring behind the scenes. With the first detailed account in English of the Granville Raid, a unique German commando operation, Will Fowler combines the social experience of war with the military to form a fascinating chronicle of the fight for the Channel Islands during the Second World War.
Author: Frederick Cohen
Publisher: Jersey Museums Service
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780952751014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1940 the Channel Islands fell under German occupation. The Nazis soon turned their attention towards identifying and discriminating against the few Island residents who they 'deemed to be Jews'. In the following year the Germans began a massive fortification building programme and amongst the workers transported to the Islands were over one thousand Jewish forced workers. These stories remained largely untold until the recent uncovering of many key files and documents. This substantially revised second edition incorporates the most recently discovered records.
Author: Ruth Ozanne
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1445612607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne woman's daily record of life in Guernsey during the German occupation.
Author: Gillian Mawson
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780752470191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel Islands were occupied on 30 June - the only part of British territory that was occupied by Nazi forces during the Second World War. Most evacuees were transported to smoky industrial towns in Northern England - an environment so very different to their rural island. For five years they made new lives in towns where the local accent was often confusing, but for most, the generosity shown to them was astounding. They received assistance from Canada and the USA - one Guernsey school was 'sponsored' by wealthy Americans such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Hollywood stars. From May 1945, the evacuees began to return home, although many decided to remain in England. Wartime bonds were forged between Guernsey and Northern England that were so strong, they still exist today.
Author: Robert Bard
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781445640372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War. The Channel lslands were occupied on 30 June 1940 when four German planes landed at Guernsey Airport. They were the only part of Britain to be occupied during the Second World War. The islands had been officially demilitarised on 19 June, but the War Office in London overlooked the necessity to inform the Germans. This led to a German air attack on 28 June, which resulted in thirty-eight civilian deaths. Hitler was extremely proud of the conquest of the Channel lslands, and saw it as a stepping-stone to the full invasion of the rest of Britain. The occupying forces were instructed to behave correctly. This would show the rest of Britain that there was nothing to be feared from life under the Third Reich. This book looks at the German Occupation, the unsavoury events that occurred on the Islands, and why at the end of the war a cover-up of these events was instigated by the British Government.
