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Author : Alan Wood,Mary Seaton Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315228774
Author : Alan Wood,Mary Seaton Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B753174
Author : Alan Wood,Mary Seaton Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Channel Islands
ISBN : OCLC:1244852990
Author : Paul Sanders
Publisher : Paul Sanders
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780953885831
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.
Author : Richard Mayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027339228
Author : Madeleine Bunting
Publisher : Random House
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473521308
‘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 : Charles Greig Cruickshank
Publisher : London ; New York : Published for the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum by Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080785434
Author : Barry Turner
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845137243
The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler’s plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed: in July the Germans invaded. The following five years in their history offer an intriguing, and often uncomfortable, virtual history of how Britain might have looked under Nazi rule – and how British people, more to the point, might have responded to it, whether through submission, courageous resistance or even collaboration. Barry Turner’s is the first history of the Occupation since Madeleine Bunting’s acclaimed but controversial A Model Occupation in 1995. It is an extremely readable and above all fair-minded account, rich in personal testimonies, showing the extreme privations suffered by the Channel Islanders, so utterly cut adrift by Britain – even if for defensible reasons of wartime expediency –, and above all the huge moral and civic task required of their pre-war governing class, several of whom could hardly have been expected to rise to the occasion. It also draws on newly released documents in the Public Record Office to reveal the messy confusion of Britain’s postwar attitude to the Channel Islands, a source of enduring resentment there.
Author : George Forty
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063649704
"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 : Roy McLoughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Channel Islands
ISBN : 0952565900
"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 : Simon Hamon
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473851597
In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine. Never before had the United Kingdom been in a state of such uncertainty and possible peril. Fortunately the full breadth of the English Channel held back Hitler's armies, and his ambition. Not so for the Channel Islands which stand just a few miles from the French coast.??To abandon British territory to the enemy was unthinkable, yet the defence of the Channel Islands was impracticable, if not impossible. It was decided, therefore, to evacuate as many as wished to leave.??This is the story of the muddled evacuation, of homes, animals and families left behind, of the German bombing of the islands, the fear of those left behind, and of those first days of German Occupation, told by the Islanders themselves through memoirs and letters, the local newspapers, and the politicians who decided the fate of tens of thousands of men women and children.
Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037481416
The Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be occupied by the Germans during World War II. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of their liberation, this is a record of life on the Channel islands under Nazi rule, and of the Liberation itself. It sets out to show the contrast between the peaceful, pre-war atmosphere of the sunny holiday islands and the shadow of fear, isolation and shortages under which islanders were forced to live for five years.
Author : Charles Cruickshank
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750979368
Charles Cruickshank provides a full account of the German invasion, the subsequent landings of various British agents, raids and an attempt to end the occupation using psychological warfare. He also looks at how the islanders and Wehrmacht lived, the reality of collaboration with the occupying powers and the extent of support for the Resistance.
Author : Richard Mayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Channel Islands
ISBN : 0711702446
Author : Barry Turner
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Channel Islands
ISBN : 1845135121
The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler’s plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed: in July the Germans invaded. The following five years in their history offer an intriguing, and often uncomfortable, virtual history of how Britain might have looked under Nazi rule – and how British people, more to the point, might have responded to it, whether through submission, courageous resistance or even collaboration. Barry Turner’s is the first history of the Occupation since Madeleine Bunting’s acclaimed but controversial A Model Occupation in 1995. It is an extremely readable and above all fair-minded account, rich in personal testimonies, showing the extreme privations suffered by the Channel Islanders, so utterly cut adrift by Britain – even if for defensible reasons of wartime expediency –, and above all the huge moral and civic task required of their pre-war governing class, several of whom could hardly have been expected to rise to the occasion. It also draws on newly released documents in the Public Record Office to reveal the messy confusion of Britain’s postwar attitude to the Channel Islands, a source of enduring resentment there.