Gi Brides

Duncan Barrett

Harpercollins

The Sugar Girls

Nuala Calvi

HarperElement

GI Brides: June

Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)

Star Trek: The Human Frontier

Michèle Barrett

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Polity Press

<p>True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'An absolutely fascinating account of life under German rule in the Channel Islands during the war. As a Guernsey girl I grew up with these stories and recognise family and friends in these pages. Duncan Barrett has done a brilliant job of reflecting the peculiar challenges that existed for those living under occupation. It is an under-told story of an extraordinary time in recent British history.' - Sarah Montague, The Today Programme presenter. **The new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sugar Girls** In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg , and Hitler’s sights were set on the English coast. And yet, following the success of the Battle of Britain, the promised invasion never came. The prospect of German jackboots landing on British soil retreated into the realm of collective nightmares. But the spectre of what might have been is one that has haunted us down the decades, finding expression in counterfactual history and outlandish fictions. What would a British occupation have looked like? The answer lies closer to home than we think, in the experiences of the Channel Islanders – the only British people to bear the full brunt of German Occupation. For five years, our nightmares became their everyday reality. The people of Guernsey, Jersey and Sark got to know the enemy as those on the mainland never could, watching in horror as their towns and villages were suddenly draped in Swastika flags , their cinemas began showing Nazi propaganda films, and Wehrmacht soldiers goose-stepped down their highstreets. Those who resisted the regime, such as the brave men and women who set up underground newspapers or sheltered slave labourers, encountered the full force of Nazi brutality. But in the main, the Channel Islands occupation was a ‘model’ one, a prototype for how the Fuhrer planned to run mainland Britain. As a result, the stories of the islanders are not all misery and terror. Many, in fact are rather funny – tales of plucky individuals trying to get by in almost impossible circumstances, and keeping their spirits up however they could. Unlike their compatriots on the mainland, the islanders had no Blitz to contend with, but they met the thousand other challenges the war brought with a similar indomitable spirit. The story of the Channel Islands during the war is the history that could so nearly have come to pass for the rest of us. Based on interviews with over a hundred islanders who lived through it, this book tells that story from beginning to end, opening the lid on life in Hitler’s British Isles.</p>

When The Germans Came

History

Europe

Simon&Schuster

The Sugar Girls of Love Lane

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Simon Schuster(uk)

GI Brides

W.F. Howes Ltd.

From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, ''GI Brides'' weaves together the reallife stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience.The ''friendly invasion'' of Britain by over a million American GIs caused a sensation among a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms, and aura of Hollywood glamour, the GIs soon had the local girls queuing up for a date and the British boys off fighting abroad turning green with envy. But American soldiers offered something even more tantalizing than a ready supply of chocolate, chewing gum, and nylon stockings. Becoming a GI bride provided an escape route from Blitzravaged Britain, an opportunity for a whole new life in America  a country that was more affluent, more modern, and less classridden than home.Some seventy thousand GI brides crossed the Atlantic at the end of the war to join the men who had captured their hearts  but the long voyage was just the beginning of a much bigger journey. Once there, the women would have to adapt to a foreign culture and a new way of life thousands of miles away from family and friends, with a man they hardly knew out of uniform. Some struggled with the isolation of life in rural America or found their heroic soldier was less appealing once he returned to Civvy Street. But most persevered, determined to turn their wartime romance into a lifelong love affair and prove to those back home that it really was possible to have a Hollywood ending.

GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio

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