You can find the Podcast at Islands at War on your favourite podcast app or click link below.
Following a number of questions around the fortification of the Channel Islands we were keen to talk about early fortifications.
In the show we deal with everything from the start to late 1941! Basically everything pre-Atlantic wall.
In this show we talk about early Luftwaffe operations and their part in the Battle of Britain, re-purposing of Napoleonic forts, minefields and mishaps, interest in the islands and more.
A few pictures and links follow below to illustrate what we talked about.
Some of the books we mentioned:
A GUIDE TO GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS ON GUERNSEY
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I also co-host a podcast with Keith Pengelley in which we talk about the occupation of the Channel Islands month by month using first hand accounts, diaries and our research in the archives. You can find us on all the major podcast services. Just search “Islands at War” or visit our podcast page here.
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I haven’t heard this podcast but images provoke memories and I’ll always remember as a kid in (presumably) the late 70s climbing over the wall at Fort Hommet (picture 4) with dad to get into the upper doorway of the bunker built into the side of the saucer. It hadn’t been sealed off back then so we got onto the broken concrete platform and up the steps to the doorway. Very exciting for a 10/12 year old.
Of course there was nothing there worth seeing but 40 years later it’s still a treasured memory. (I’m a Londoner but Mum’s an islander so every summer for maybe my first 20 years was 2 weeks to a month in Guernsey feeding a growing fascination with the occupation.)