Jersey Occupation Book Titles

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LIVING WITH THE ENEMY
Roy McLoughlin

During the Second World War the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be occupied by German forces. Living With The Enemy tells the unique and true story of life in the Islands under Nazi rule. With eyewitness accounts from both Islanders and German soldiers, this book gives an accurate insight into this ill-assorted community at war and portrays how it felt to be living in the shadow of a foreign power: a sample of what the United Kingdom would have experienced should it have fallen. The book includes over 125 original war time photographs of the Islands under Nazi rule.

In this book, the author sets the personal experience of Channel Islanders against the wider perspective of Europe at war.

£7.85 (including p&p to UK)

PRISON WITHOUT BARS
Frank Keiller

Frank Keiller was thirteen and living in Jersey when the Germans occupied the Channel Islands in 1940. During the ensuing five years, he shared the various hardships common to his fellow Islanders. Moreover, he and his friends felt a particular sense of frustration at being forced to grow to maturity in what they felt was a 'prison without bars.' Such strong feelings led him into various encounters with the enemy - he punched a German soldier in the face when, in 1942 and on Hitler's orders, 'English' residents were deported. After D-Day, he attempted with others to reach the French mainland but failed after their highly unsuitable craft sank beneath them. He was court-marshalled twice but on both occasions avoided the death penalty. During his imprisonment he escaped and spent the rest of the Occupation on the run in Jersey.
Frank Keiller recounts not only his own experiences of life in Jersey during those five long years of Occupation but draws on many others' records, both published and unpublished. What emerges is a story of an island people and their attempts to survive a time of their lives marked by fear and oppression.
Thanks to some sensationalist, recently published accounts, it has become 'common knowledge' that Channel Islanders were collaborators. Frank Keiller's final chapter addresses the sensitive question of Resistance vs Collaboration in a calm, even-handed and objective manner.

£9.45 (including p&p to UK)

NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN
Joe Mière

German Occupation historian, Joe Miere, has dedicated the last sixty years to ensuring that his fellow Islanders who lived in the darkest period of Jersey's history were not forgotten. All has been done with no thought of personal reward or glory. This book is an accurate reflection of that time.

Joe has never shrunk from telling the truth, however unpalatable. As the Bailiff said recently, "it is the work of people like Joe which will inform and be the basis of historical accuracy. He is modest, almost self effacing, about his achievements".

By the choice of a popular vote, Joe was honoured by his fellow Islanders to be the Jersey Heritage Trust's Portrait of the Jersey Citizen of 2003.

£17.95 (including p&p to UK)

JERSEY OCCUPATION DIARY
Nan Le Ruez

This remarkable book is based on a diary which a young Jersey woman kept throughout the five long years of the German Occupation.
Nan Le Ruez had been engaged to be married in 1938; the arrival of the Germans in 1940 effectively separated her from her fiancé until 1945. The Occupation dragged on and conditions grew worse. After the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944, the hoped-for Liberation took almost another year to arrive.
Jersey Occupation Diary is a deeply personal account written from day to day, without hindsight and with no thought of eventual publication. The book tells of a life informed by Christian values, of a Jersey farming family and of a host of characters in the wider Island community, as well as German Officers, Inspectors and the cruelly treated slave workers.

At times almost unbearably poignant, the personal nature of the account of those five years makes riveting reading, and the eventual outcome - Liberation and reunion - comes as a blessed relief.

£12.85 (including p&p to UK)

If you wish to order any of these titles, please ring
Channel Island Publishing (01534) 860806,
download the order form
or email us.

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	German Occupation of the Channel Islands Book Titles - page 1
	LIVING WITH THE ENEMY Roy McLoughlin During the Second World War the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be occupied by German forces. Living With The Enemy tells the unique and true story of life in the Islands under Nazi rule. With eyewitness accounts from both Islanders and German soldiers, this book gives an accurate insight into this ill-assorted community at war and portrays how it felt to be living in the shadow of a foreign power: a sample of what the United Kingdom would have experienced should it have fallen. The book includes over 125 original war time photographs of the Islands under Nazi rule. In this book, the author sets the personal experience of Channel Islanders against the wider perspective of Europe at war. £7.85 (including p&p to UK)
	PRISON WITHOUT BARS Frank Keiller Frank Keiller was thirteen and living in Jersey when the Germans occupied the Channel Islands in 1940. During the ensuing five years, he shared the various hardships common to his fellow Islanders. Moreover, he and his friends felt a particular sense of frustration at being forced to grow to maturity in what they felt was a 'prison without bars.' Such strong feelings led him into various encounters with the enemy - he punched a German soldier in the face when, in 1942 and on Hitler's orders, 'English' residents were deported. After D-Day, he attempted with others to reach the French mainland but failed after their highly unsuitable craft sank beneath them. He was court-marshalled twice but on both occasions avoided the death penalty. During his imprisonment he escaped and spent the rest of the Occupation on the run in Jersey. Frank Keiller recounts not only his own experiences of life in Jersey during those five long years of Occupation but draws on many others' records, both published and unpublished. What emerges is a story of an island people and their attempts to survive a time of their lives marked by fear and oppression. Thanks to some sensationalist, recently published accounts, it has become 'common knowledge' that Channel Islanders were collaborators. Frank Keiller's final chapter addresses the sensitive question of Resistance vs Collaboration in a calm, even-handed and objective manner. £9.45 (including p&p to UK)
	NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN Joe Mière German Occupation historian, Joe Miere, has dedicated the last sixty years to ensuring that his fellow Islanders who lived in the darkest period of Jersey's history were not forgotten. All has been done with no thought of personal reward or glory. This book is an accurate reflection of that time. Joe has never shrunk from telling the truth, however unpalatable. As the Bailiff said recently, "it is the work of people like Joe which will inform and be the basis of historical accuracy. He is modest, almost self effacing, about his achievements". By the choice of a popular vote, Joe was honoured by his fellow Islanders to be the Jersey Heritage Trust's Portrait of the Jersey Citizen of 2003. £17.95 (including p&p to UK)
	JERSEY OCCUPATION DIARY Nan Le Ruez This remarkable book is based on a diary which a young Jersey woman kept throughout the five long years of the German Occupation. Nan Le Ruez had been engaged to be married in 1938; the arrival of the Germans in 1940 effectively separated her from her fiancé until 1945. The Occupation dragged on and conditions grew worse. After the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944, the hoped-for Liberation took almost another year to arrive. Jersey Occupation Diary is a deeply personal account written from day to day, without hindsight and with no thought of eventual publication. The book tells of a life informed by Christian values, of a Jersey farming family and of a host of characters in the wider Island community, as well as German Officers, Inspectors and the cruelly treated slave workers. At times almost unbearably poignant, the personal nature of the account of those five years makes riveting reading, and the eventual outcome - Liberation and reunion - comes as a blessed relief. £12.85 (including p&p to UK) If you wish to order any of these titles, please ring Channel Island Publishing (01534) 860806, download the order form or email us.
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