Buy this book on-line TURNER, BARRY: : OUTPOST OF OCCUPATION: How the Channel Islands Survived Nazi Rule 1940-45LONDON.AURUM PRESS LIMITED,2010. ISBN 9781845135126.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE-/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp, clean,matt,montaged photographic illustrated dw/dj to its front with capitaised, matt,red-lettered part-title and white-lettered subtitle,and capitalised,white-lettered author name; a grey spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title as the front's,thumbnail b/w photograph detail,capitalised,black-lettered author name and publisher's red+b/w illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with contemporary b/w wartime occupation photograph.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present - presence though of production fault of a pressed crease to front's top edge and similar pressed crease to front's inner flap too - but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with faint sporadic dust flecks,fore-edges with similar light,faint sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,and plain white endpapers with some minimal off-setting and minimal foxing to same.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, illustrated,1st edn,1-312pp [paginated] includes an Introduction,20 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp152/53, Acknowledgements,Endnotes,a Bibliography and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram [Anthony Eden],and a Contents list/table.
Visually the exterior appearance is still exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 10+ year old age.It is only the faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall. Despite them,it really is still an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of detracting faults. Once Britain had demilitarized the idyllic, unspoiled holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed,in July the Germans invaded.The following five years in their history offer an intriguing, and often uncomfortable, virtual history of how Britain might have looked under Nazi rule and how British people, more to the point, might have responded to it, whether through submission, courageous resistance, or even collaboration.Extremely fair-minded account and rich in personal testimonies, this account shows the extreme privations suffered by the Channel Islanders, so utterly cut adrift by Britain even if for defensible reasons of wartime expediency and above all the huge moral and civic task required of their pre-war governing class, several of whom could hardly have been expected to rise to the occasion. Now,Barry Turner has written the first full history of the Ocupation for fifteen years.It also draws on newly released documents to reveal the messy confusion of Britain's postwar attitude to the Channel Islands, a source of enduring resentment there.After the war British Intelligence services launched an astonishing witch-hunt for collaborators among the islanders.
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