Publications

The Channel Islands Occupation Review is published alternately by the Guernsey and Jersey Branches. All Reviews are well illustrated with maps and photographs. A limited number of copies of past editions are still available for sale, covering the years 1973 onwards. Some are now out of print.

Please send your order to: Chris Le Tissier, Binebeca, Petites Capelles, St. Sampson, Guernsey GY2 4GR

1973: Tunnels in Jersey, The RAD, Naval Signals Organisation, MNO St. Jacques, Hitlers fortification Order of 1941, Shipping losses in C.I. waters. Out of Print.

1974: Lib. Day Reconnaissance, Mirus Command Centre, Vazon Bay Defences, Air losses, L'Angle Tower Anti-Tank Walls in Jersey. Out of Print.

1975: Cezembre, Escapees of  Jersey, Artillery Batteries in the C.I., Infantry Strongpoints in Jersey, Churches in Guernsey, Batterie Mirus Project. Out of Print.

 1976: Chouet Tower, Weapons of the German Soldier, Perelle Bay Defences, HMS Charybdis & Limbourne, Artillery in the C.I. Telecommunications Networking Guernsey. Out of Print.

1977: Fuel Solution-Holzgaz, Alderney's Fortifications, Machine -Guns in the C.I., Occupation Archives.              Out of Print.

1978 Escapes from Guernsey & Alderney, H.M.S. Rodney Bombards Alderney, Wartime Quarries in Jsy, M.V. Dorothea Weber, States of Guernsey, German Mortars. Out of Print.

1979 La Corbiere Gun, Commando raid on Sark 1942, Wehrmacht Geologist, A Boy at War, Panzers in Guernsey. Out of Print.

1980 Liberation 'RoRo', Palace Hotel Explosion, 22cm Kanone 532(f), Noirmont Point, Pleinmont Tower, E-Boat Raids, C.I. Shipping. Out of Print.

1981 The Kommandant, U-Boat 275,Electricity Supply in Jersey, 4.7cm PaKK Gun, Karl Greier-Reluctant Soldier. Out of Print.

1982: Naval Battle in the C.I., Rev. E.G. Stoneman, Horticulture in Guernsey, Buried Artillery, Alderney Photographs,  Liberation Stories.  £3.50 

1983: Artillery Carriers, A Trio of Field Guns, Do They Ever Come Back, Naval Artillery Battalion 604, Shipwrecks in Jersey, British & American P.O.Ws in Jersey. Out of Print.

1984: German Coastal Artillery oin the Channel Islands, Major Lanz, No Surrender, Bradshaw Advice Cards/Red Cross Message System.  £3.50 

1985: Atlantic Wall Blueprint, Liberation Day-Jersey, Liberation Voyage, Operation Nest Egg & Task Force 135, French North African P.O.W's. Out of Print.

1986: Belza and the Mustang Pilot, Anti-Tank Obstacles in Jersey, Raid on Cotentin -Bernd Westoff, Reg Ferbrache, Finds in Falla's Quarry, The Ultra Secret. Out of Print.

1987: German Harbour Organisation-Jersey, German Flamethrowers, Channel island Communications, U.S.S. PC 564. Out of Print.

1988: Alderney's German Jetty, Guernsey Schoolchildren Evacuation, Loss of Speedball & Picadilly Commando, German Ground Radar, The Story of PT 509. Out of Print.

No17: Coastal Artillery Obs. Posts-Jersey,Fortress Feldpost Covers, Cezembre, Resistance Nest Pavillon, Op. Nest Egg, Do They Ever Come Back-Brefka.  £3.50    Out of Print.

No18: Arrival of Occupying Forces, Bundesarchiv, Op. Green Arrow, German/Austrian Settlers in Gsy., Alderney, 2cm Flak, Oestmann Correspondence.  £3.50

No19: Land Mine Warfare, 319 Infantry Division, Disposal of Jersey's Coastal Weapons, Gun Recovery, Do They Ever Come Back-Herr Kohler. £3.50

No20: Festung Guernsey, The I.D. Card System, Road Numbering-Jersey, Jews Deportation, Jack Sauvary's Diary. £4.00

No21:5cm M19, M19 Bunkers, Erika Navigation System, German Road Numbering-Guernsey, Gun Recovery, Swiss Girl in Guernsey, Herr Lubbe. Out of Print.

No22: Fetsung Guernsey Part2, Methodism, Chouet Tower, Jsy Coastal Artillery, Hasso von Schaaffhausen.  £4.50 

No23: Liberation of Jersey, Liberation Air Cover, Evacuation of Prisoners-Sark, Herr Georg Brefka Minefield Clearance, Marie Ozanne, Herr Johannes Kegelmann, Jersey Freemasonry.  £5.75 Out of Print.

No24: Festung Guernsey Part3, Force 135, Major Gruzdev, Jersey Coastal Artillery, Fort Hommet, A German Anti-Aircraft Commander in Guernsey.  £4.50

N025: The Soldatenheim Guest Book, Herr Alfred Knipps, Foreign Workers Burials in Guernsey, 88 Flak Batterys, Bunker Preservation.  £4.75 Out of Print.

No26: Escape from Alderney, MNO Bunker, Health of Channel Islanders, Harbour Protection Flotilla, Battery Dollmann, Jsy Coastal Artillery, Hanns Sinn. £5.50. 

No27: Little Commandant of Sark, Herr Otto Schmeigler, Norman Le Brocqs Story, A Russian in Hiding, Pilot Officer Scheidhauer, Operation Tunnel.  £4.50 Out of Print.

No28: 40th CIOS Anniversary, Enigma and the Y Service, MNO Bunker, Frank Stroobant Field Kitchens, Jersey May & June 1940, Fort George, Harbour Protection Flotilla.  £5.50

No29: Luftwaffe in Jersey, Germany, The Channel islands and Espionage, Jail & Escape under the Jackboot, Anti-Tank Walls in Jersey, Stoewer Radio Car, Preservation Progress. £5.50 Out of Print.

No30:The Deportations from the Channel Islands to Germany, Recalling the Granville Raid, The Rev. Ord Diary, Operation Nestegg, M.I.5 Extracts, The 'Gloster Hotel' Internment in Germany, An Unsuccessful Escape, A gunner of Flak Battery Rabenstein. £5-50

 No.31:Siebel-Fahren & Artilleriefahrprahme in Channel Island waters, French Renault Char-b tanks, diary of Albin Ballauf, Wolff of the Gestapo, Noel McKinstry,Reconciliation: the twinning of St.Helier with Bad Wurzach. £5-50 

No32 (2004) A Teachers Experience, Alderney & Sylt Camp, Sylt Camp & letter from Himmler, Batteries Scharnhorst and Schlieffen, Brecqhou Goes To War, The V-Sign Badges, Herr Paul Sommerfeld, USS Maloy, Photo Gallery, The Story of Egypt Village (Jersey), Friedrich Rammel, Preservation Progress and Group Visits. £5-50.

No33: Batterie Blucher- Alderney, An Escape from Jersey, German Searchlights, Rev. Ord's Diary, Military Geologists, Postage Stamps, Preservation Progress.  £6-50

No34: Liberation Treasure Chest - The Uniforms of Maj. G. Johnson. Guenther Brauner, A Childs War, Liberation Cavalcades, Merlyn Severn, VS-6 Hitlers Secret Weapon for Guernsey, Herman Offenwanger, Batterie Steinbruch. £5-80

No 35: L403 Flak Command Bunker, Herman Lauster in Guernsey, The Escape attempt, That man had my car!, Do they ever come back - Engelbert Hoppe return of the reluctant Soldier, The fall and rise of R.N. Richtfeuer, tragic minefield accident at Fermain Bay, Guernsey, Work by German Military Geologists - part 2, Mirus in the late '40s, Preservation progress. £6-95

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

A Guide to GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS on GUERNSEY. by Ernie Gavey A comprehensive field guide containing maps, plans, photos and detailed descriptions of the fortifications. 88 pages. Highly recommended. £5-50

Definitive guide to the Alderney Fortifications Click here for details

Re-published 2006

THE ORGANISATION TODT and the FORTRESS ENGINEERS in the Channel Islands. 168 pages, well illustrated. £6-50

A TINY ACT OF DEFIANCE: Peter J. Rivett. A limited publication detailing the story of a small band of quite humble individuals and their innovation in finding ways to make quality products for the public and their selfless devotion to their absent employers Boots the Chemist. Paperback 50 pages. £4-95

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