The Occupation Book

Cover photography by Charles H. Toms, from a postcard in the collection of the German Occupation Museum, Guernsey. February 1945. As the Allies make great gains in France, the Channel Islands remain a bastion of Nazi-occupied territory. On Jersey, Lieutenant-Colonel Max von Luck is in charge of liaising with the civilian population. He has little time for his fanatical colleagues, and has earned the respect of many of the Islanders. In his bunker in Berlin, Hitler decides to deploy the V3 - a weapon so secret that even the slave labourers constructing it deep beneath the island of Alderney do not know its exact purpose. June 1990. Workmen digging the foundations for a new hotel start to fall sick. Their illness is similar to that suffered by many islanders over the past half-century. Journalist Robert Lebonneur is suspicious. Then he finds a diary written by Lieutenant-Colonel Max von Luck during the wartime occupation. The diary makes it clear that much more is at stake than a mysterious illness. As Lebonneur investigates, he begins to run into the same dark forces that von Luck found himslf up against nearly half a century before... About the Author Guy Walters was a journalist on The Times for eight years, where he travelled around the world and reported on a wide variety of subjects. He is married, lives in Wiltshire, and is now a full-time novelist. Some Reviews: The Northern Echo, November 2, 2004 A HIGHLY charged tale of intrigue and deception...engenders a genuine sense of fear. Guernsey Press & Star, 10 November 2004 ...this exciting wartime thriller which illustrates a remarkable degree of research... The Sunday Telegraph, October 5, 2004 This gripping thriller, like the sinister, still visible structures it describes, makes for good reading but bad memories. The Daily Express, April 29, 2005 A gripping tale of dark forces, deception and death.Read More