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Author: Robert Bard
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1445640708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The incredible true story of what really happened in occupied Guernsey during the Second World War.
Author: George Forty
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Drawing upon first-hand reminiscences and a superb collection of historic photographs from a wide variety of sources - including private collections - the book details the history of wartime years then brings it up to date with a succinct survey of the surviving relics of the Nazi occupation which can still be seen today." "Channel Islands at War, originally published in hardback in 1999 and now reprinted in paperback to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Islands' liberation in 1945, presents a graphic portrait of this fascinating aspect of recent British history. It will undoubtedly be of considerable interest to all those who study World War 2 in general and Northwest Europe in detail, and also be of particular interest to those who specialise in the employment of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, in a very different environment to that of the usual World War 2 battlefields."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Deborah Carr
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2021-06-25
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0008436290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now with a brand new epilogue! Please update your eBook to get the new version and find out what happens after the war...
Author: Madeleine Bunting
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1473521300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph What would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded – with resistance or collaboration? In Madeleine Bunting’s pioneering study, we begin to find the answers to this age-old question. Though rarely remembered today, the Nazis occupied the British Channel Islands for much of the Second World War. In piecing together the fragments left behind – from the love affairs between island women and German soldiers, the betrayals and black marketeering, to the individual acts of resistance – Madeleine Bunting has brought this uncomfortable episode of British history into full view with spellbinding clarity.
Author: Jenny Lecoat
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2022-07-07
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1788855655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on a remarkable true story of love and survival. In June 1940, the Channel Islands are occupied by Hitler's forces. Hedy Bercu, a young woman who fled from Vienna to Jersey to escape the Occupation, finds herself once more entrapped by the Nazis, this time with no escape. Concealing her Jewish status, she finds translation work with the German authorities and embarks on secret acts of resistance. Most extraordinary of all, Hedy falls in love with a German lieutenant – a relationship on which her survival comes to depend. 'Combines historical fact with the fictional narrative, and offers a cast rich with multidimensional characters. Readers will be riveted' – Publishers Weekly
Author: Molly Bihet
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1848682050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Child's War tells the story of Germany's occupation of Guernsey through the eyes of a young girl.
Author: Gillian Mawson
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0752490931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 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: 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: Mary Ann Shaffer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-05-10
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1408803313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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.
