Bibliography - Books on World War 2 and the German Occupation

Books on the German Occupation
of the Channel Islands

Leslie Sinel's Occupation diary

Books on the German Occupation of Jersey
and the other Channel Islands

This list included a number of books written about the Occupation which were unpublished works only available in manuscript. We have tried to limit this listing to published works, although, of course, many will now be out of print. If the location of an unpublished work is known, it is included

• Ainger, Lois M, My case unpacked, 1995
• Allisette, Richard, Islanders in Kitbags, 1985
• Anon, Press diary of Island Life during the German Occupation 1940-1945, 1945
• Antill, J K, A bibliography of the German occupation of Jersey and other Channel Islands, 1975
• Aubin, H E, The Occupation bicycle park, 1992
• Auerbach, Hans, Die Kanalinseln, Jersey, Guernsey und Sark, 1943
• Aufsess, Baron von and Casper, Wilhelm, In the eye of the hurricane, Remembrances from the Channel Islands 1941-1943, 1991
• Aufsess, Baron von, The von Aufsess occupation diary, edited and translated by Kathleen J Nowlan, 1995
• Bailey, K G, The Red Triangle: Symbol of Dachau, 1979
• Balleine, G R, Balleine’s History of Jersey, revised and enlarged by Margaret Syvret and Joan Stevens, 1981
• Barrett, Duncan, Hitler's British Isles, 2018
• Beecken, Olaf, Dokumente von den Kanalinseln zur Festungszeit: August 1944-Mai 1945: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Endphase der deutschen Besatzung (3 vols), 1999
• Beecken, Olaf, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark: A postal history of the German prisoners of war 1945-1947, 1998
• Bell, W M, I Beg to Report: Policing in Guernsey during the German Occupation, 1995
• Bennett, Rab, Under the shadow of the Swastika: the moral dilemmas of resistance and collaboration in Hitler’s Europe, 1999
• Binding, Tim, Island madness, 1998
• Boelcke, Willi A, Der Schwarzmarkt 1945-1948. Vom Überleben nach dem Kriege, 1986
• Boleat, Peggy, A Quiet Place, 1993
• Bonnard, Brian, The Island of Dread in the Channel: the story of Georgi Ivanovitch Kondakov; Russian letters translated by Galina Chernakova, 1991
• Bonnard, Brian, Alderney at War, 1993
• Bonsor, N R P, The Guernsey Railway: The German Occupation Lines in Guernsey and the Alderney Railway, 1967
• Bonsor, N R P, The Jersey Eastern Railway and the German Occupation Lines, 1977
• Boot, Johanna, Alderney and Sylt Camp – The Memoirs of Sylvester Kukula, 2004
• Bougourd, Tony, Stolen Childhood, 2002
• Briggs, Asa, The Channel Islands. Occupation and Liberation 1940-1945, 1995
• Bryans, Peter, Jersey Besieged 1944, 1980
• Bunting, Madeleine, The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945, 2004
• Burnal, Paul, Batterie Lothringen Noirmont Point, Jersey 1941 – 1945 German Naval Coastal Artillery Battery, 2002
• Carr, Gillian, Occupied Behind Barbed Wire (The story of how 2,200 Channel Islanders were forcibly deported to German civilian internment camps), 2009
• Carr, Gilly, Sanders, Paul, and Wilmot, Louise, Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940-45, 2014
• Chalker, Bryan, Out of the Frying Pan into der Führer: The story of the Channel Islands' Kitchen Front of World War Two, 1989
• Channel Islands Occupation Society, Jersey's German Bunkers
• Chapman, David M, Chapel and Swastika: Methodism in the Channel Islands during the German Occupation 1940-1945, 2009
• Cohen, Frederick, The Fate of the Jews in the Occupied Channel Islands, 1997
• Cohen, Frederick, The Jews in the Channel Islands during the German Occupation 1940-1945
• Coles, Joan, Three Years behind Barbed Wire: the diary of a British internee in Schloss Wurzach, Germany 1942-1945, 1985
• Collenette, Vernon, Elizabeth College in Exile, 1940-1945, 1975
• Coysh, Victor, Swastika Over Guernsey, 1955
• Cruickshank, Charles, The German Occupation of the Channel Islands, 1975
• Dalmau, John, Slave worker in the Channel Islands, 1956
• Davidson, Joan, Evacuated, England : Design Innovations, 2005
• Davies, Peter, Dangerous Liaisons: Hitler, collaboration and World War Two, 2004
• De Carteret, Basil, Mary Deslandes and Mary Robin, An island trilogy. Memories of Jersey and the Occupation, n.d.
• Drawmer, Gwen, My Memories of the German Occupation of Sark (1940-1945), 2001
• Edwards, Lyn Renouf, Enemy or Friend?, 2009
• Ellington, Ralph, The German underground hospital : 1942-1945, 1971
• Falla, Frank, The Silent War. The inside story of the Channel Islands under the Nazi jackboot, 1994 reprint
• Falle, Audrey, Slaves of the Third Reich – Jersey 1940–1945, 1994
• Faramus, Anthony, Journey Into Darkness, 1990
• Festung Guernsey, German Tunnels in Guernsey, Alderney & Sark, 2012
• Forty, George, Atlantic Wall: Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark (Battleground Europe), 2002
• Forty, George, Channel Islands at War: A German Perspective, 1999
• Forty, George, German Occupation Of The Channel Islands
• Fraser, David, Jews of the Channel Islands and the Rule of Law, 1940-1945: Quite Contrary to the Principles of British Justice, 2000
• Freeman-Keel, Tom, From Auschwitz to Alderney, c. 1995
• Garnier, Val, Medical history of the Jersey hospitals and nursing homes during the Occupation 1940-1945, 2002
• Ginns, Margaret, French North African POWs in Jersey, 1985
• Ginns, Michael, German tunnels of the Channel Islands, 1993
• Ginns, Michael, Jersey Occupied: The German Armed Forces in Jersey 1940-1945, 2009
• Ginns, Michael and Bryans, Peter, German Fortifications in Jersey, 1978
• Ginns, Michael and Costard, M (Ed.), The Organisation Todt and the fortress engineers in the Channel Islands
• Grove, Jenny Chamier, Engineering an escape; The Escape attempt, 2003
• Guillemette, Louis, The People's Messenger: The Occupation Diary of Louis Guillemette 1940 – 1945, Kenneth Tough (Ed.), 2022
• Halliwell, Michael, Operating Under Occupation
• Hamel, E J, X-Isles: One man's impressions of 5 years in the citadel of freedom
• Hamon, Simon J, Channel Islands Invaded: The German Attack on the British Isles in 1940 Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There, 2015
• Harris, Leo, A Boy Remembers, 2000
• Harris, Leo, Boys Remember More, 2002
• Harris, Roger E, Islanders Deported: Part 1: The complete history of the British subjects who were deported from the Channel Islands during the German Occupation of 1940-45 and imprisoned in Europe, 1980
• Harris, Roger E, Islanders Deported: Part.2: The development and censorship of the internment camp mail services associated with British subjects deported from the Channel Islands during the German occupation of 1940-1945, 1983
• Harvey, Winifred, The Battle of Newlands: The Wartime diaries of Winifred Harvey, 1995
• Hathaway, Sibyl, Dame of Sark: An autobiography, 1986 (reprint)
• Heaume, Richard, Marjorie Ozanne
• Hillsdon, Sonia, Jersey Occupation Remembered, 1986
• Hillsdon, Sonia and Jennings, Geraint, German Soldiers in Jersey A children's book
• Holt, Linda, The model occupation – Setting the record straight, 1997
• Holmes, D C, Fortress Jersey Part 1 – German Army, 1978
• Journeaux, Donald P, Raise the White Flag - A Life in Occupied Jersey, 1995
• Kaufmann, J E, Fortress Third Reich. German fortifications and defence systems in World War II, 2003
• Keiller, Frank, Prison without Bars: Living in Jersey under the German Occupation, 1940-45, 2000
• King, Peter, The Channel Islands War 1940-1945, 1991
• Knowles Smith, Hazel R, The Changing Face Of The Channel Islands Occupation: Record, Memory and Myth, 2007
• Kondakov, Georgi, The island of dread in the Channel. The story of Georgi Ivanovitch Kondakov, edited by Brian Bonnard, 1991
• Lamerton, Mark, Liberated by Force 135 An account of the Liberation of the Channel Islands after World War 2
• Last, Nella, Nella Last’s War
• Last, Nella, Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife, 49, 2008
• Le Brocq, Edward, Memoirs of Edward Le Brocq 1877-1964, 2000
• Le Moignan, Luke, Stories of an Occupation, 1995
• Le Pelley, Paul, The Evacuation of Guernsey Schoolchildren
• Le Quesne, Edward, The Occupation of Jersey Day By Day, 1999 reprint
• Le Ruez, Nan, Jersey Occupation Diary: Her Story of the German Occupation 1940-45, 1994
• Le Sauteur, Philip F, Jersey under the Swastika, 1968
• Le Sueur, Francis, Shadow of the Swastika – could it all happen again? 1992
• Le Tissier, Richard, Mined Where You Walk: The German Occupation of Sark: 1940-45, 2008
• Lenfestey, Gillian, A Brief History of the Guernsey Deportees to Dorsten and Biberach,Germany Sept1942-June 1945: A report to the British Red Cross on conditions at Biberach, Sept 1944, 2003
• Lewis, Dr John, A Doctor's Occupation – the dramatic true story of life in Nazi occupied Jersey, 1997
• Lihou, Peter, Rachel’s Shoe
• Mahy, Miriam M, There is an Occupation, 1992
• Marshall, Michael, Hitler invaded Sark: The full story of the German occupation of Sark, 1967 (reprint)
• Marshall, Michael, The Small Army, 1957
• Maugham, R C F, The island of Jersey today. Its scenery, history, people, administration and residential potentialities, 1938
• Maugham, R C F, Jersey Under The Jackboot, 1946
• Mawson, Gillian, Guernsey Evacuees: The Forgotten Evacuees of the Second World War, 2012
• Mayne, Richard, Channel Islands Occupied – Unique pictures of the Nazi rule 1940-1945, 1972
• Mayne, Richard, Operation Nestegg – the Liberation of Jersey 1945, c. 1980
• McLoughlin, Roy, Living with the Enemy - What Really Happened: The story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, with eye-witness accounts from both sides, 1995
• Mière, Joe, Never To Be Forgotten, 2004
• Mollet, Ralph, Jersey under the swastika: An account of the Occupation of the island of Jersey by the German forces, 1 July 1940 to 12 May 1945, 1945
• Money, June, Aspects of war: evacuation, deportations, liberation, communications, transport, fuel, 1995
• Morris, Lillie Aubin, A collection of occupation recipes, 1994
• Nebel, Gerhard, Bei den Nördlichen Hesperiden, 1948
• Nettles, John, Jewels and Jackboots: Hitler's British Channel Islands, 2012
• Ord, Douglas, Guernsey Occupation Diaries, 1940-45, John Nettles (Ed.), 2021
• Ozanne, Beryl S, A Peep Behind The Screens (1940 to 1945), 1994
• Packe, Michael St J and Maurice Dreyfus, The Alderney Story 1939-1949, 1971
• Pantcheff, T X H, Alderney, Fortress Island. The Germans in Alderney, 1940-1945, 1981
• Perrin, Dennis, The Occupation and Jersey Freemasonry, 1995
• Partridge, Colin W and Davenport, T, The Fortifications of Alderney, 1993
• Partridge, Colin W and Warbridge, J, Mirus, The Making of a Battery, 1983
• Partridge, Colin W, Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, 1976
• Pocock, H R S, Memoirs of Lord Coutanche, 1975
• Ramsey, Winston G, The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now, 1982
• Read, Brian Ahier, No Cause for Panic: Channel Islands Refugees, 1940-45, 1995
• Rivett, Peter J, A Tiny Act Of Defiance, 2001
• Robin, Mary, de Carteret, B E, and Deslandes, Alwyn, An Island Trilogy – memories of Jersey and the Occupation, 1994
• Roussel, Leslie, Evacuation, c. 1980
• Sanders, Paul, Histoire du marché noir 1940-1946, 2001
• Sanders, Paul, Managing Under Duress: Ethical Leadership, Social Capital and the Civilian Administration of the British Channel Islands During the Nazi Occupation, 1940–1945
• Sanders, Paul, The British Channel Islands under German Occupation 1940-1945, 2005
• Sanders, Paul, The Ultimate Sacrifice, 1998 (Islanders who died in German prisons and concentrations camps during the Occupation)
• Saunders, Anthony, Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, 2001
• Seidler, Franz W, Die Organisation Todt. Bauen für Staat und Wehrmacht 1938-1945, 2 vols, 1998
• Sherwill, Ambrose, A Fair and Honest Book, 2006
• Sinel, Leslie, Diary of the German Occupation of Jersey 1940-1945
• Steckoll, Solomon H, The Alderney death camp, 1982
• Stephenson, Charles, The Channel Islands 1941-45: Hitler's impregnable fortress, 2006
• Stoney, Barbara, Sybil, Dame of Sark, 1978
• Strobl, Gerwin, The Germanic isle: Nazi perceptions of Britain, 2000
• Stroobant, Frank, One Man's War. The dramatic true story of life in the Channel Islands under the jackboot of German occupation 1984 reprint
• Tabb, Peter, A Peculiar Occupation, (New Perspectives on Hitler's Channel Isles), 2005
• Thomas, Roy, Lest we forget : escapes and attempted escapes from Jersey during the German occupation, 1992
• Toms, Carel, Hitler's Fortress Islands, 1967
• Tremayne, Julia, War on Sark: The Secret Letters of Julia Tremayne, 1981
• Turner, Barry, Outpost Of Occupation: How the Channel Islands Survived Nazi Rule 1940-45, 2010
• Van Grieken, G, Destination "Gustav": a wartime journey, 1992
• Vibert, Winter, Tin Foot Soldier - The true story of a Jerseyman enlisting in the battered British Army during the aftermath of Dunkirk
• Weithley, Richard, So It Was - One Man's Story of the German Occupation from boyhood to manhood 1940-1945
• White-Regan, Pearl, Excuse Me, I'm Occupied, 2011
• Wood, Alan and Mary Seaton, Islands in Danger, 1955 (One of the earliest major histories of the Occupation)
• Wyatt, Horace, Jersey in Jail 1940-45, 1945
• Various authors, The First Casualty – the German Underground Hospital and Jersey's Occupation Experience, 1991
• Hitler's British Islands (64 page booklet of original wartime photos and interviews)
• Chardine, Albert, Recollections (a typed transcript of his recollections, custody of the Société Jersiaise
• Gardner, W G A, The story of a group of British war-resisters who fell into enemy hands in the German occupied Channel Islands in World War 2, unpublished history, 1991 (custody of the Société Jersiaise)
• Lainé, Adele (unpublished diary)
• L’Amy, J H, The German occupation of Jersey, unpublished memoirs, custody of the Société Jersiaise)
• Stocker, W A, personal diary (custody of the Société Jersiaise)