Buy this book on-line RAMSEY,WINSTON G: : THE WAR IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS:THEN AND NOWLONDON.BATTLE OF BRITAIN PRINTS INTN'L LTD.,1981. ISBN 0900913223.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,contemporary colour+b/w scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents
bright,tight and clean also,apart from some light sporadic spotting to half-title page and recto of last page.Bright,
clean,unblemished black,textured rexine bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and contemporary b/w photographic illustrated eps.Qrto,1-254pp [paginated] includes contemporary b/w scenic photographic illustrated title-page,
acknowledgements,contents list/table,b/w map frntis,prologue,11
chapters,profuse contemporary b/w then and now scenic photographs throughout the text and the book,appendix; plus [unpaginated] half-title page.
In the established format of the quarterly magazine After the Battle,its Editor,Winston G.Ramsey, looks at the wartime story of the Channel Islands from a 'then and now' perspective,
illustrated with comparison photographs taken some forty years after the enemy were shown the door.Many people will be aware that the Islands were the only British territory occupied by the Germans in WWII but it is,perhaps,less generally known that
they were fortified out of all proportion to their size,forming
as they did a cornerstone of Hitler's Atlantic Wall.
In this book Alderney,Guernsey,Jersey and Sark are visited and
the legacy of their occupation explored.Throughout the chapter on the post-war period,the book of blasting and crackle of acetylene cutters echoes across the pages,and - lamentably - reverberates still in the account of the Islands as they are today.Holiday-makers with a sense of history (and a comparable sense of hearing) may also catch some intriguing sounds as they discover the uses to which the Island's hotels were put by their German guests during their five-year stay.
The book brings together for the first time first-hand accounts of all seven Commando raids in the Channel Islands,for
which enthusiasm was not entirely unanimous at the time.There is a complete listing of every military grave in the islands commemorating the dead of both sides of the First and Second World Wars,and a review of the war museums provides useful information on the variety of relics that enthusiasts have had the foresight to preserve.Double-page,annotated aerial photographs form a fascinating visual aspect of the book - among them unique pictures of Sark for which exceptional permission was granted to enter the island's inviolable airspace.Other photographs were only recently discovered and have never been published before.
As with all After the Battle publications,the location of every comparison photograph has been matched exactly - linking the past with the present and offering a fresh perception of the occupation years with a return to the sites and scenes that were their backdrop.
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