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The Model Occupation

The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945

Madeleine Bunting

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English
Vintage
15 July 2017
'Much the best book so far to appear on the German occupation of the Channel Islands' M. R. D. Foot, Times Literary Supplement

'A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph

What would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded - with resistance or collaboration? In Madeleine Bunting's pioneering study, we begin to find the answers to this age-old question.

Though rarely remembered today, the Nazis occupied the British Channel Islands for much of the Second World War. In piecing together the fragments left behind - from the love affairs between island women and German soldiers, the betrayals and black marketeering, to the individual acts of resistance - Madeleine Bunting has brought this uncomfortable episode of British history into full view with spellbinding clarity.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 137mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   393g
ISBN:   9781784707163
ISBN 10:   1784707163
Pages:   400
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Madeleine Bunting was born in North Yorkshire. After studying history at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, she won a Knox postgraduate fellowship to study and teach history at Harvard University. She worked for an independent television production company joining the Guardian as a reporter in 1989. She became the newspaper's religious affairs correspondent in 1995.

Reviews for The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945

Madeleine Bunting is a superb chronicler of what happened - if you want a classic example of the dilemmas of Resistance, here it is. -- Professor Norman Stone The Times A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane -- Hugh Trevor-Roper Sunday Telegraph I am full of admiration for this book. By careful research and sensitive use of light and shade, Ms Bunting holds the reader's attention through an uncomfortable passage in our history - and one which we have been most reluctant to inform ourselves -- Alan Clark Guardian Excellently researched... This book...is an important historical document, if an uncomfortable one, in the understanding of our national character -- John Mortimer Sunday Times [An] excellent book...thoroughly unflinching, fair-minded, humane and sensitive -- Jonathan Keates Evening Standard


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