The Model Occupation

There were love affairs between island women and German soldiers, betrayals and black marketeering, individual acts of resistance, 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 labourers the Nazis brought among them to build an impregnable ring of defences around the islands?

ISBN	184413086X	Pages	384
ISBN13	9781844130863 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Vintage	Weight (grammes)	435
Imprint	Pimlico	Published in	London
Format	Paperback	Previous ISBN	9780006379737
Publication date	01 Apr 2004	Height (mm)	215
Library of Congress	DA670.C4	Width (mm)	135
DEWEY	942.34084	Spine width (mm)	28
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	General

	List of Illustrations
	Maps
	Preface to the Pimlico Edition
	Chronology
	Acknowledgements
	Note on Sources
	Introduction: An Island People	3
1	Ditched	11
2	Correct Relations	37
3	A Model Occupation	74
4	Survival	115
5	Les Rochers Maudits	148
6	Resistance? What Resistance?	191
7	Had Britain Forgotten?	223
8	Liberation	246
9	Justice Done?	276
	Epilogue: The Legacy	315
App	The Jewish Question	337
	Sources	345
	Bibliography	349
	Index	351

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

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The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945

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