The Model Occupation
  • Published: 15 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784707163
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $55.00
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The Model Occupation

The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945

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'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.
  • Published: 15 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784707163
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

About the author

Madeleine Bunting

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. She is the author of The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1948.

Praise for The Model Occupation

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

Scolarly and immensely readable

Jack Higgins, Mail on Sunday

A scrupulously fair account of life under occupation

New Statesman and Society