The Mannequin Occupation: The Channel Islands Underneath German Rule, 1940-1945

‘A masterly work of profound analysis and reflection, goal and humane’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph

What would have occurred if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British individuals have responded – with resistance or collaboration? In Madeleine Bunting’s pioneering research, we start to seek out the solutions to this age-old query.

Although hardly ever remembered right this moment, the Nazis occupied the British Channel Islands for a lot of the Second World Conflict. In piecing collectively the fragments left behind – from the amorous affairs between island girls and German troopers, the betrayals and black marketeering, to the person acts of resistance – Madeleine Bunting has introduced this uncomfortable episode of British historical past into full view with spellbinding readability.