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Hitler S British Isles
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Author : Duncan Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Hitler S British Isles written by Duncan Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Channel Islands categories.
True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII.
Hitler S British Isles
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Author : John Nettles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Hitler S British Isles written by John Nettles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Channel Islands categories.
This title was born of a series of dicumentary films about the German occupation of the Channel Islands at war. It is also the fulfilment of an ambition to tell in much more detail than was possible in those documentaries.
When The Germans Came
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Author : Duncan Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-06-14
When The Germans Came written by Duncan Barrett and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with History categories.
True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'An absolutely fascinating account of life under German rule in the Channel Islands during the war. As a Guernsey girl I grew up with these stories and recognise family and friends in these pages. Duncan Barrett has done a brilliant job of reflecting the peculiar challenges that existed for those living under occupation. It is an under-told story of an extraordinary time in recent British history.' - Sarah Montague, The Today Programme presenter. **The new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sugar Girls** In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg, and Hitler’s sights were set on the English coast. And yet, following the success of the Battle of Britain, the promised invasion never came. The prospect of German jackboots landing on British soil retreated into the realm of collective nightmares. But the spectre of what might have been is one that has haunted us down the decades, finding expression in counterfactual history and outlandish fictions. What would a British occupation have looked like? The answer lies closer to home than we think, in the experiences of the Channel Islanders – the only British people to bear the full brunt of German Occupation. For five years, our nightmares became their everyday reality. The people of Guernsey, Jersey and Sark got to know the enemy as those on the mainland never could, watching in horror as their towns and villages were suddenly draped in Swastika flags, their cinemas began showing Nazi propaganda films, and Wehrmacht soldiers goose-stepped down their highstreets. Those who resisted the regime, such as the brave men and women who set up underground newspapers or sheltered slave labourers, encountered the full force of Nazi brutality. But in the main, the Channel Islands occupation was a ‘model’ one, a prototype for how the Fuhrer planned to run mainland Britain. As a result, the stories of the islanders are not all misery and terror. Many, in fact are rather funny – tales of plucky individuals trying to get by in almost impossible circumstances, and keeping their spirits up however they could. Unlike their compatriots on the mainland, the islanders had no Blitz to contend with, but they met the thousand other challenges the war brought with a similar indomitable spirit. The story of the Channel Islands during the war is the history that could so nearly have come to pass for the rest of us. Based on interviews with over a hundred islanders who lived through it, this book tells that story from beginning to end, opening the lid on life in Hitler’s British Isles.
When The Germans Came
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Author : Duncan Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05
When The Germans Came written by Duncan Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05 with categories.
True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'An absolutely fascinating account of life under German rule in the Channel Islands during the war. As a Guernsey girl I grew up with these stories and recognise family and friends in these pages. Duncan Barrett has done a brilliant job of reflecting the peculiar challenges that existed for those living under occupation. It is an under-told story of an extraordinary time in recent British history.' - Sarah Montague, The Today Programme presenter. **The new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sugar Girls** In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg, and Hitler's sights were set on the English coast. And yet, following the success of the Battle of Britain, the promised invasion never came. The prospect of German jackboots landing on British soil retreated into the realm of collective nightmares. But the spectre of what might have been is one that has haunted us down the decades, finding expression in counterfactual history and outlandish fictions. What would a British occupation have looked like? The answer lies closer to home than we think, in the experiences of the Channel Islanders - the only British people to bear the full brunt of German Occupation. For five years, our nightmares became their everyday reality. The people of Guernsey, Jersey and Sark got to know the enemy as those on the mainland never could, watching in horror as their towns and villages were suddenly draped in Swastika flags, their cinemas began showing Nazi propaganda films, and Wehrmacht soldiers goose-stepped down their highstreets. Those who resisted the regime, such as the brave men and women who set up underground newspapers or sheltered slave labourers, encountered the full force of Nazi brutality. But in the main, the Channel Islands occupation was a 'model' one, a prototype for how the Fuhrer planned to run mainland Britain. As a result, the stories of the islanders are not all misery and terror. Many, in fact are rather funny - tales of plucky individuals trying to get by in almost impossible circumstances, and keeping their spirits up however they could. Unlike their compatriots on the mainland, the islanders had no Blitz to contend with, but they met the thousand other challenges the war brought with a similar indomitable spirit. The story of the Channel Islands during the war is the history that could so nearly have come to pass for the rest of us. Based on interviews with over a hundred islanders who lived through it, this book tells that story from beginning to end, opening the lid on life in Hitler's British Isles.
Hitler S British Islands
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 200?
Hitler S British Islands written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 200? with categories.
Hitler On The Doorstep
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Author : Egbert Kieser
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1997
Hitler On The Doorstep written by Egbert Kieser and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
All Britain was convinced that the Germans would come. They had nothing left with which to oppose the German panzers. In only five weeks the Germans had crushed France and expelled the BEF from Belgium. Now those panzers stood on the Channel coast, waiting for the order to send them to England.
Jewels Jackboots
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Author : John Nettles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Jewels Jackboots written by John Nettles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
"This book was born of a series of documentay films about the German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940 to 1945 entitled The Channel Islands at war. It is also the fulfilment of an ambition to tell in much more detail than was possible in those documentaries, the true story of those extraordinary years"--Back cover
German Invasion Plans For The British Isles 1940
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Author : Germany. Heer. Abteilung für Kriegskarten- und Vermessungswesen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
German Invasion Plans For The British Isles 1940 written by Germany. Heer. Abteilung für Kriegskarten- und Vermessungswesen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
"I have decided to prepare for, and if necessary to carry out, an invasion against England."--Adolph Hitler, July 16, 1940 Operation Sealion was the codename for the Nazi invasion of Britain that Hitler ordered his generals to plan after France fell in June 1940. Although the plan ultimately never came to fruition, a few sets of the Germans' detailed strategy documents are housed in the rare book rooms of libraries across Europe. But now the Bodleian Library has made documents from their set available for all to peruse in this unprecedented collection of the invasion planning materials. The planned operation would have involved landing 160,000 German soldiers along a forty-mile stretch of coast in southeast England. Packets of reconnaissance materials were put together for the invading forces, and the most intriguing parts are now reproduced here. Each soldier was to be given maps and geographical descriptions of the British Isles that broke down the country by regions, aerial photographs pinpointing strategic targets, an extensive listing of British roads and rivers, strategic plans for launching attacks on each region, an English dictionary and phrase book, and even a brief description of Britain's social composition. Augmenting the fascinating documents is an informative introduction that sets the materials in their historical and political context. A must-have for every military history buff, German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 is a remarkable revelation of the inner workings of Hitler's most famous unrealized military campaign.
The Germanic Isle
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Author : Gerwin Strobl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-26
The Germanic Isle written by Gerwin Strobl and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-26 with History categories.
An account of Nazi preoccupation with Britain as a role model, even during the war.
If Britain Had Fallen
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Author : Norman Longmate
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2012-03-19
If Britain Had Fallen written by Norman Longmate and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-19 with History categories.
ÔIt is good to see this book back in print . . . a distinguished contribution to the canon of alternate histories.Õ Ð Gary Sheffield in Military History The question Ôwhat ifÕ Germany had invaded the British Isles has long preoccupied writers, but none have dealt with the subject as comprehensively and effectively as Norman Longmate. Based on a classic television film of the same name, If Britain Had Fallen covers every phase of the subject, from the German pre-invasion maneuvering and preparations, the landing of troops, to the German seizure of power. What follows is a fascinating contemplation of what it would have been like to live day to day under German occupation, creating a new reality that is thoroughly believable and thus all the more frightening. What would have happened to the King and the Government? Would America, Canada or Australia come to the rescue? Would the British people have come to accept the occupation? Would the deportation of friends, the flying of the swastika from Buckingham Palace incite passive compliance, or brave resistance? All these questions and more are explored to their full in this thought provoking and chilling pastiche of the centuries most enduring and darkest episodes. This is a classic book, with fresh material from Norman Longmate.