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| Author | : Mark Brocklesby |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 703 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0752494163 |
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Taking you through the year day by day, The Channel Islands Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the islands. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of the Channel Island's archives and covering the social, criminal, political, religious, industrial and sporting history of the region, it will delight residents and visitors alike.
| Author | : Mark Brocklesby |
| Publisher | : History Press (SC) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-08 |
| Genre | : Channel Islands |
| ISBN | : 9780752491066 |
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The Channel Islands are unique--a result of 800 years of independence. Taking you through the year day by day, The Channel Islands Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, momentous and amusing events and facts from the earliest period of the island's history to the present. Entries cover a huge variety of subjects and are drawn from a myriad original documents and sources, including 300 years of newspaper reports; diary entries from the English Civil War and diary extracts from the time of the German occupation, written by government officials, teenagers, German officers and slave workers. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information on a huge variety of historical subjects, it will delight residents and visitors alike.
| Author | : Jenny Lecoat |
| Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2022-07-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1788855655 |
Download The Girl From the Channel Islands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Paul Sanders |
| Publisher | : Paul Sanders |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0953885836 |
Download The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Madeleine Bunting |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 451 |
| Release | : 2014-07-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473521300 |
Download The Model Occupation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
‘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 | : Susan Lamb |
| Publisher | : Western National Parks Association |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Channel Islands National Park (Calif.) |
| ISBN | : 1877856746 |
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California sea lions line the beaches and gray whales float by during migration. With almost two hundred square miles of ocean and five remarkable islands, Channel Islands National Park represents miniature versions of a California many visitors may have thought long lost. With the rich diversity of plants and animals protected within its boundaries, the park conserves archeological sites from almost 13,000 years of human presence.
| Author | : Marla Daily |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 073859508X |
Download The California Channel Islands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Every day, thousands of Southern California residents see the California Channel Islands on the horizon, yet few can name all eight. Santa Catalina Island, third largest, is by far the best known. It is the only island with a city, Avalon, where dozens of hotels, shops, and restaurants await visitors year-round. Three of the islands are owned by the US Navy: San Clemente, San Nicolas, and San Miguel. San Clemente and San Nicolas Islands are used for military training, naval weapons development, and missile testing; thus access is restricted. Five islands fall within the boundaries of Channel Islands National Park: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, and Santa Barbara Islands. Close to the mainland and yet worlds apart, scenic day trips and primitive camping opportunities are available on all five park islands. With neither stores nor modern conveniences, a trip to Channel Islands National Park is a step back in time.
| Author | : Karen Robards |
| Publisher | : MIRA |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2020-06-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1488055335 |
Download The Black Swan of Paris Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An exquisite WWII novel illuminating the strength of three women in occupied Paris, for fans of The Nightingale, The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris. "A truly outstanding novel...reminds us of the power of love, hope and courage."—Heather Morris, #1 bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Paris, 1944 Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse’s position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won’t be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian that will derail the upcoming allied invasion. The resistance movement is tasked with silencing her by any means necessary—including assassination. But Genevieve refuses to let her mother become yet one more victim of the war. Reuniting with her long-lost sister, she must find a way to navigate the perilous cross-currents of Occupied France undetected—and in time to save Lillian’s life. In this heart-wrenching novel, bestselling author Karen Robards showcases the extraordinary lengths one goes to save their family from a German prison. A web of spies, the resistance and a vivid portrayal of Paris in wartime.
| Author | : G.B. Edwards |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2012-03-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590176111 |
Download The Book of Ebenezer le Page Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island. G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.
| Author | : Robert Bard |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014-05-15 |
| Genre | : Channel Islands |
| ISBN | : 9781445640372 |
Download The Channel Islands at War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 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.
