It surprised me so much. It shouldn’t have — I knew the Channel Islands had been occupied, but I never, not once, thought what that might have entailed. Willful ignorance is all I can call it. So, I am off to the London Library to educate myself. The library suffered terrible bomb damage, but the [...]
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February 20, 1946 – London Library
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An introduction to Guernsey Island
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Guernsey Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands; it is also the western-most. It lies a mere 30 miles from France, and 125 miles south of England. Guernsey is the site of the Les Fouillages burial mound, possibly the oldest man-made structure in Europe. Geology indicates that the Channel Islands were once part [...]
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