The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Author: Mary Ann Shaffer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-05-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1408803313

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The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.

Living with the Enemy
Living with the Enemy

Author: Roy McLoughlin

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9780952565901

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"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.

The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945
The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945

Author: Paul Sanders

Publisher: Paul Sanders

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0953885836

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The 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.

The Model Occupation
The Model Occupation

Author: Madeleine Bunting

Publisher: Random House UK

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781844130863

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"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?"

Nazi Prisons in the British Isles
Nazi Prisons in the British Isles

Author: Gilly Carr

Publisher: Pen and Sword Military

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1526770946

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With 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.

Jewels & Jackboots
Jewels & Jackboots

Author: John Nettles

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780993265747

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"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

Paper Bullets
Paper Bullets

Author: Jeffrey H. Jackson

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1643752057

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"The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler and calls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the British Channel Islands"--

An Island at War
An Island at War

Author: Deborah Carr

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0008436290

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Now with a brand new epilogue! Please update your eBook to get the new version and find out what happens after the war...