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

The Model Occupation · the Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945
Authors
Bunting, Madeline
Publisher
Random House UK
Tags
history , war
ISBN
9781844130863
Date
1995-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
2.05 MB
Lang
en
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During the German occupation of Britain's Channel Islands, there were love affairs between island women and German soldiers, betrayals and black marketeering, individual acts of resistance, and 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 laborers the Nazis brought among them to build an impregnable ring of defences around the islands?