Discourse and Defiance Under Nazi Occupation: Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1940-1945

by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp

Captured by German forces shortly after Dunkirk, and not relinquished until May of 1945, nearly a year after the Normandy invasion, the British Channel Islands (Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm) were characterized during their occupation by severe deprivation and powerlessness. The Islanders, with few resources to stage an armed resistance, constructed a rhetorical resistance based upon the manipulation of discourse, construction of new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611860822
• ISBN13: 9781611860825
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 10.1"