The Germans thought they were seeing military vehicles at St. Peter Port on Guernsey, an island in the English Channel just 30 miles from Normandy, France. They took to the skies and on June 28, 1940, ...
A Guernsey woman serving as a Wren in World War Two unknowingly intercepted messages from her home island. Barbara Quevâtre was 14 when she was evacuated from Guernsey ahead of its occupation by ...
The World War Two bombing of tomato trucks in St Peter Port harbour has been described by a local historian as the "blackest day" in Guernsey history. Thirty-four people were killed and 33 were ...
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What happened in the Channel Islands during WW2?
The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two with islanders enduring five long, harsh years under Nazi rule. From 1940-1945 Germans ...
Epistolary novels, their venerable heritage (“Pamela”) notwithstanding, are tough to pull off; if not done well, the lack of a narrative line can tend to cause them, and their readers’ minds, to ...
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