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Backwater War

(1974)
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A story for teenagers about the impact of the Second World War on the people of the British Channel Islands.

The Channel Islands were the only part of Britain that Hitler's army managed to win and occupy, and the islanders were cut off for the whole war. They ran out of food and clothing, their houses were taken for enemy troops, their radios were confiscated, they lost their freedom. But the Germans couldn't take away their courage, and seventeen year-old Anna and her friends plot the ultimate act of resistance against the enemy-escape...

This ebook edition contains a new afterword by the author.


Genre: Children's Fiction

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