The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945

Bunting, Madeleine

ISBN 10: 1784707163 / ISBN 13: 9781784707163

Published by Vintage, 2018

About this Item

When the Germans arrived on the Channel Islands after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940, they and the islanders agreed that it would be a "Model Occupation". But as the war dragged on and Britain appeared to abandon the islands to their fate, so features of Nazi occupation already widespread throughout Europe emerged. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135. . . 2017. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784707163
• ISBN 13: 9781784707163
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

‘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.

About the Author

Madeleine Bunting was born in North Yorkshire. After studying history at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, she won a Knox postgraduate fellowship to study and teach history at Harvard University. She worked for an independent television production company joining the Guardian as a reporter in 1989. She became the newspaper's religious affairs correspondent in 1995.