Full official history of the German occupation of the Channel Islands from invasion in 1940 to liberation in 1945. Shows how a German occupation of Britain would probably have unfolded. A full and unvarnished account.

The question is often asked : how would the British have behaved if their country - like most of the rest of Europe - had been occupied by the Germans in the Second World War? This book provides the sometimes uncomfortable answers. Based on previously untapped sources of information, including papers from Government departments, the Channel Islands’ own wartime files, as well as files left behind by the German Feldkommandantur in Guernsey and Jersey, it provides the official unvarnished history of the occupation. Historian Charles Cruikshank begins with a full account of the German invasion of the islands, tells the story of the landing of British agents, commando raids, and the psychological warfare waged against the occupiers down to the islands’ eventual liberation and the peaceful surrender of the German garrison. He also examines the darker sides of occupation - food shortages; denunciations; and the use of slave labour by the Germans to fortify the islands. The book details the daily realities of occupation : did islanders collaborate or resist and how far did the occupation of this little piece of Britain provide a template for German plans to subjugate the entire British mainland?

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Product Code:	10598
Author:	Charles Cruikshank
Format:	398pp, hb. Published Price £9.99
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