CIOS Review 26: Escape from Alderney

by various contributors Channel Island Occupation Society (Guernsey)

No 26 in the series of WW2 Occupation reviews published annually in turn by Jersey and Guernsey: Escape from Alderney - An Occupation soldier in Guernsey.

With the passing of the years, the importance of recording the memories of those who lived through the dark years of the Occupation becomes ever more pressing and, in this Review, we give due prominence to personal reminiscences of both the military and civilian sides.

Wilhelm Burkert's recollections of his service on Guernsey as a German Army pastor is at once fascinating for its insight into the spiritual conscience of the soldier, as well as valuable for the observation it contains on the military command. No amount of research into the surviving documentary archives can throw such preceptive personal commentary on the dry historical facts.

Of equal importance to the contemporary viewpoint is Dr August Hartmann's paper on his service as a German naval doctor in Jersey, and especially for the information he provides on the evacuation of the wounded from the besieged St Malo and the naval battery on C?zembre. To this, Pierre Renier adds a valuable postscript detailing the final decoded messages from the isle prior to its surrender, and a separate list of the Hafenschutz vessels in the Channel Islands.

Best Sellers

A Guernseyman Goes to War

Author: By Liz Walton
- Our Price: £14.99
Buy Now
Lincoln's Castle, Bail and Close

Author: Ed. Andrew Walker
- Our Price: £6.95
Buy Now
Little Will TRILOGY

Author: Peter Gaston
- Our Price: £30.00
Buy Now
The Betrayal: The Guernsey Novels - Book 6

Author: Anne Allen
- Our Price: £7.99
Buy Now
Nobbut a Yellerbelly

Author: Alan Stennett
- Our Price: £6.99
Buy Now
The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook

Author: by Miek Zwamborn
- Our Price: £12.99
Buy Now
The Inheritance: The Guernsey Novels - Book 7

Author: by Anne Allen
- Our Price: £8.99
Buy Now
Beetroot for Breakfast! Tales from the Land Girls of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

Author: John A Ward
- Our Price: £12.00
Buy Now
Discovering Guernsey - DVD

Author: Susan Lloyd
- Our Price: £10.00
Buy Now
Lincolnshirics

Author: Fred Dobson
- Our Price: £3.45
Buy Now
'Spirituall Concupiscence': John Cotton's English Years, 1584-1633

Author: by Jesper Rosenmeier
- Was: £35.00
- Our Price: £26.25
Buy Now
Lincoln's West End: A History

Author: Edited by Andrew Walker
- (Out of Print)
Buy Now
Larks in the Lincolnshire Marsh

Author: Polly Williams
- Our Price: £4.50
Buy Now
All the King's Enemies

Author: Jack Bartlett and John Benson
- (Out of Print)
Buy Now
Lincolnshire Dialects (6th Printing)

Author: G Edward Campion
- Our Price: £3.49
Buy Now
A selection of views in the county of Lincoln

Author: Bartholemew Howlett
- Our Price: £30.00
Buy Now