Foreword by Sir Philip Bailhache, Bailiff of Jersey; Preface by Francis Corbel; Introduction by Paul Sanders; Occupation Economics; Collaboration? What Collaboration?; Resistance, Repression & Persecution; The Culture of Survival; The Visitors; The Practice of Modern Slave Labour; Epilogue: The Disposal of Occupation; Conclusion; Index.
Dr Paul Sanders studied in Berlin and Paris before obtaining a PhD in history at Cambridge. His unique skills, scholarly expertise and multilingual abilities make him uniquely suited for working with the masses of private and public material that have become available in the Channel Island, UK, France and Germany over the last 30 years. Previous publications include 'The Ultimate Sacrifice', a study of defiance and resistance in Jersey during the German Occupation. He has also also written, in French, the standard reference work on the black market in wartime France, 'Histoire du Marche Noir' (Perrin, Paris, 2001). He is currently working on a history of British-German relations since the 18th century.
This book represents an extraordinary achievement. It addresses a controversial past but, through scholarly sophistication, moves beyond the polemic that has so often been associated with the history of the Channel Islands during the Second World War. In no way apologetic or defensive, it manages to convey the acute dilemmas facing Channel Islanders and shows the range and complexity of their responses. It does justice to their unique situation whilst placing the occupation in a comparative framework within and beyond the Second World War. Based on detailed archive work in many different countries it also utilises written and oral testimony to produce a humane and immensely readable narrative that covers all aspects of this remarkable story. Professor Tony Kushner University of Southampton
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