Life in Guernsey Under the Nazis, 1940-45
Author | : Dorothy Pickard Higgs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Germans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dorothy Pickard Higgs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Germans |
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Author | : Ruth Ozanne |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445612607 |
One woman's daily record of life in Guernsey during the German occupation.
Author | : Madeleine Bunting |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2014-07-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473521300 |
‘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 | : J. C. Sauvary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Guernsey |
ISBN | : |
"Following the Germans' rapid conquest of France, the occupation of the Channel Islands became inevitable and the British Government provided ample shipping for anybody wanting to leave. Mr. Sauvary did not and he began his diary the day his daughter, Kit, evacuated. Mr. Sauvary was a member of an old Guernsey family. Because of his fourfold role of Builder, Grower, Churchwarden and Douzenier, the diary contains a wealth of his experiences with the occupying forces. The five year narrative gives a day to day description of their gradual encroachment on the life and liberty of the Islanders. He first had them billeted on him and was then turned out of his house. Mr. Sauvary's appreciation of nature and his observations of the wildlife and weather run like a thread through the diary and his observations of human nature give an insight into the Islanders' reactions to the occupation. His wisdom and generosity helped many to come to terms with this daunting experience. The book includes information about the Island's unusual administration and vocabulary"--Publisher's description
Author | : Barry Turner |
Publisher | : Aurum |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1845137248 |
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 | : K. M. Bachmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Guernsey |
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Author | : Roy McLoughlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Channel Islands |
ISBN | : 9780952565901 |
"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 | : Gilly Carr |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2020-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526770946 |
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.
Author | : Asa Briggs |
Publisher | : Trafalgar Square Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Gillian Mawson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780752470191 |
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.