Outpost of Occupation: How the Channel Islands Survived Nazi Rule 1940-45

Turner, Barry

ISBN 10: 1845135121 / ISBN 13: 9781845135126

Published by Aurum Press, 2010

About this Item

1st printing with full number line. Firmly bound and carefully read. The book is in VG clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No torn, loose or missing pages. The unclipped jacket is also in VG clean condition with a small tear to the top rear edge without loss.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Outpost of Occupation: How the Channel Islands Survived Nazi Rule 1940-45
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845135121
• ISBN 13: 9781845135126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History British
  • Social History
  • World War II 1939-45

About this title

Synopsis

Once Britain had demilitarized the idyllic, unspoiled 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. Extremely fair-minded account and rich in personal testimonies, this account shows 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 to reveal the messy confusion of Britain’s postwar attitude to the Channel Islands, a source of enduring resentment there.

About the Author

Barry Turner is the author of Countdown to Victory, descibed by the Daily Mail as "A tapestry full of illuminating detail."