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

Bunting, Madeleine

ISBN 10: 184413086X / ISBN 13: 9781844130863

Published by Pimlico, 2004

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184413086X
• ISBN 13: 9781844130863
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 430 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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. There were love affairs between island women and German soldiers, betrayals and black marketeering, individual acts of resistance, feats of courage and endurance. Every islander was faced with uncomfortable choices: where did patriotism end and self-preservation begin? What moral obligation did they have to the thousands of emaciated and ill-treated slave labourers the Nazi's brought among them to build an impregnable ring of defences around the islands?

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.