1. Guernseymen in St Peter Port in 1939, about to embark for the UK to volunteer for the Forces. (Carel Toms Collection)
2. Islanders gather at St Helier harbour to wave off reservists called up for the British Forces on 1 September 1939. (Jersey Evening Post)
3. The Bailiff of Jersey, Alexander Coutanche, and island officials greet Luftwaffe officers at Jersey airport on 1 July 1940. (Carel Toms Collection)
4. A Nazi propaganda film at the Gaumont Palace, Guernsey, in August 1941. (Carel Toms Collection)
5. A Guernsey policeman opens the car door for German staff officers in St Peter Port, 1940. (Bundesarchiv)
6. An islander nervously receives orders from a German officer in Gorey Harbour, Jersey, 1941. (Bundesarchiv)
7. Identity card of Raymond Falla, Guernsey’s Minister of Agriculture and a member of the Controlling Committee. (Carel Toms Collection)
8. Tight rationing was introduced, and controls imposed on every aspect of food production. (Carel Toms Collection)
9. Initially at least, to the German soldiers a posting to the Channel Islands was more like a holiday than fighting a war. (Johann Miesen; Eric Tostevin)
10. German officer Hans Stumpf on Jersey. (Hans Stumpf)
11. Stumpf’s best friend with Stumpf’s girlfriend and her sister. (Hans Stumpf)
12. A young Jersey girl on the best of terms with three German officers. (Hans Stumpf)
13. Baron von Aufsess. (Imperial War Museum)
14. Island women found the attractions of the Germans difficult to resist. (Bundesarchiv)
15. Therese Steiner, photographed in Vienna before she fled the Nazis and sought refuge in England. (Karl Steiner)
16. Therese Steiner with the Potts family on Sark, summer 1939. (Guernsey Evening Press)
17. Marianne Grunfeld as a child in Berlin. (Ernst Grunfeld)
18. Sybil Hathaway, Dame of Sark, greets a German officer outside her home, the Seigneurie. (Bundesarchiv)
19. Ambrose Sherwill, with his wife May, at Buckingham Palace to receive his post-war honours. (Rollo Sherwill)
20. Alexander Coutanche and Victor Carey negotiate with Red Cross representatives in a conference chaired by Admiral Friedrich Hüffmeier. (Imperial War Museum)
21. Queuing for food supplies in St Peter Port. (Carel Toms Collection)
22. Old metal biscuit tins were made into saucepans, a meagre light came from a Brasso can, and a butter churn from a glass preserving jar. (Jersey Museums Service)
23. With islanders facing starvation, the British government finally agreed in November 1944 to allow the Red Cross to ship in parcels of food. (Jersey Evening Post)
24. By 1943 sixteen thousand foreign workers had arrived to work on the construction of the islands’ fortifications. (Bundesarchiv)
25. Former prisoners Vasilly Marempolsky and Gasulla Sole, reunited at a post-war Liberation anniversary on Jersey. (Vasilly Marempolsky)
26. Georgi Kondakov and Kirill Nevrov in Orel, 1993. (Madeleine Bunting)
27. Georgi Kondakov’s resistance membership certificate, retrieved from the KGB in the mid-eighties. (Georgi Kondakov)
28. Kirill Nevrov in Paris, 1944. (Kirill Nevrov)
29. Alexei Ikonnikov in 1944. (Alexei Ikonnikov)
30. Ivan Kalganov in 1993. (Madeleine Bunting)
31. Otto Spehr, believed to be the last surviving member of SS Baubrigade I, which came to Alderney in March 1943. (Guardian/Reuters)
32. Jersey boy Bernard Hassall tries on a German helmet in 1941. (Bernard Hassall)
33. Joe Miere in 1994. (Roger Hutchings)
34. A V for Victory sign in a St Helier street. (Jersey Evening Post)
35. The announcement of a £25 reward for information leading to the conviction of painters of ‘V’ signs. (Carel Toms Collection)
36. Stella Perkins in 1942. (Stella Perkins)
37. The Jersey resistance movement, with German deserter Paul Mülbach. (Jersey Underground Museum)
38. Jersey cinema projectionist Stanley Green smuggled a film and camera into Buchenwald, where he took the only photographs to be taken by an inmate. (Stanley Green)
39. Liberation. Troops arrive to a rapturous welcome, 9 May 1945. (Hulton-Deutsch)
40. German prisoners of war being loaded onto ships bound for England. (Jersey Museums Service)
41. Dolly and Willi Joanknecht on Jersey during the Occupation. (Dolly and Willi Joanknecht)
42. Dolly and her son Tony wave goodbye to Willi as he leaves for England in 1946. (Dolly and Willi Joanknecht)
43. Dolly and Willi marry in England in August 1947. (Dolly and Willi Joanknecht)
44. Russian slave workers’ graves on Alderney (The Royal Air Force Museum)
45. British investigators with a false-bottomed coffin, which could be used for repeated burials. (The Royal Air Force Museum)
46. Maximilian List, SS commandant of Alderney. (SS Document Centre, Berlin)
47. Kurt Klebeck, List’s deputy. (SS Document Centre, Berlin)