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The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation 1940 1945
Author | : Paul Sanders |
Publsiher | : Paul Sanders |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780953885831 |
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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.
Channel Islands Invaded
Author | : Simon Hamon |
Publsiher | : Frontline Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781473851597 |
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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.
Channel Islands Invaded
Author | : Simon Hamon |
Publsiher | : Frontline Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1399078828 |
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In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine. 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
Outpost of Occupation
Author | : Barry Turner |
Publsiher | : Aurum |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845137243 |
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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.
Channel Islands Occupied
Author | : Richard Mayne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015027339228 |
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The German Occupation of the Channel Islands
Author | : Charles Greig Cruickshank |
Publsiher | : London ; New York : Published for the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum by Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105080785434 |
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The German Occupation of the Channel Islands
Author | : Charles Cruickshank |
Publsiher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780750979368 |
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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.
The Channel Islands
Author | : Asa Briggs |
Publsiher | : Trafalgar Square Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015037481416 |
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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.