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The Girl From The Channel Islands
- Author
- Jenny Lecoat
- Narrator
- Deryn Edwards
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 1 July 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
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The Girl From the Channel Islands follows her struggle to survive the Occupation and avoid deportation to the camps. Despite her racial status, Hedy finds work with the German authorities and embarks on acts of resistance. Most remarkable of all, she falls in love with a German lieutenant ? a relationship on which her life soon comes to depend.
Previously published under the title Hedy's War.
User Reviews
Book 3.0
Narration 5.0
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3⭐️ = Average.
This was based on a true story ,which was lovely but was maybe why this book was quite toned down compared to other ‘war’ novels that I have read. By saying this, I don’t mean that true stories are not horrific, just less sensational.Julie7 2024-07-15
Details
- Author
- Jenny Lecoat
- Narrator
- Deryn Edwards
- Duration
- 9 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 July 2020
- ISBN
- 9781407990309
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- War, combat and military adventure fiction
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
In June 1940, the Channel Islands becomes the only part of Great Britain to be occupied by Hitler's forces. Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl from Vienna who fled to Jersey two years earlier to escape the Anschluss, finds herself once more entrapped by the Nazis, this time with no escape. The Girl From the Channel Islands follows her struggle to survive the Occupation and avoid deportation to the camps. Despite her racial status, Hedy finds work with the German authorities and embarks on acts of resistance. Most remarkable of all, she falls in love with a German lieutenant ? a relationship on which her life soon comes to depend. Previously published under the title Hedy's War.
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