Island Fortress https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html JANUARY 1942 – RAF AIR RAID ON ST PETER PORT AND A NEW YEAR TRAGEDY! PODCAST IS OUT! DECEMBER 1943 – HEDY UPDATE, £1 RACKET, BLACK MARKET & SCANDAL A SPECIAL PODCAST EPISODE – INTERVIEW WITH DAVE HEWITT PODCAST – SPECIAL EPISODE – INTERVIEWS WITH SOME WHO WERE CHILDREN DURING THE OCCUPATION, AN EVACUEE EXPERIENCE AND MORE. JUNE 1943 PODCAST -BREAKING INTO SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES, BINOCULARS BUNGLE, UNITED CLUB RAID, CENSORSHIP AND CINEMA! MAY 1943 – RAF RAIDS, STAND OFF WITH THE GERMANS, DISASTROUS RATIONING CUTS & SHIPPING SUNK! PODCAST EPISODE OUT ISLANDS AT WAR: FEBRUARY 1944 IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS – LATEST EPISODE IS OUT AUGUST 1943 – ESCAPE, CENSORSHIP, RAF RAIDS AND A BIZARRE LEGAL CASE! NOVEMBER 1943 – HEDWIG ESCAPES, MONUMENT BLOWN UP, FUNERAL FURORE AND MUCH MORE JULY 1943 – THREE YEARS OF OCCUPATION, HEALTH, RATIONS, ARRESTS AND RESISTANCE JANUARY 1944 PODCAST IS OUT! BOXING DAY SPECIAL PODCAST – DECEMBER 1943 COMMANDO RAIDS ON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS Podcast – Islands at War IWM PODCAST LIVE FESTIVAL – INTERVIEW WITH IWM’s HEAD OF PUBLIC HISTORY, JAMES BULGIN. EXCITING NEWS! THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER! BOOK REVIEW – ‘THE BOOK OF LOST CHILDREN- JENNY O’BRIEN’ – OUT 11 APRIL ISLANDS AT WAR MARCH 1944 EPISODE OUT NOW! COLLABORATION, RESISTANCE, ROMMEL, INVASION HOPES AND FEARS! NOVEMBER 1942 PODCAST IS OUT! FRANKEN SPITFIRE, A LANCASTER IN SARK, SPITFIRE CRASH AND A GERMAN CALLED GEORGE FALLA! BRITAIN UNDER THE NAZIS – THE FORGOTTEN OCCUPATION – MINNOW FILMS ON CHANNEL 4 DECEMBER1942 – PART 1 BLACK MARKET, PROHIBITED ZONES, FORCED REGISTRATION FOR LABOUR, REGISTRATION OF GUESTS, RUMOURS OF GERMAN DEPARTURE! “LET’EM STARVE!” – A CONTROVERSIAL COMMENT! WHAT DID CHURCHILL MEAN? PODCAST JULY 1942 – MUSSOLINI, RADIOS, MONEY, PENSIONS PALAVA, HOSTAGES, RAMROD RAIDS AND MUCH MORE! SEPTEMBER 1942 – OPERATION DRYAD, ESCAPE AND TRAITORS JANUARY 1943 – PART ONE – SHIPPING SHOCKER, AIR RAIDS, A CRAFTY FRENCHMAN, PARTIES AND MUCH MORE! FEBRUARY 1943 – DEPORTATIONS, MILK MISBEHAVIOUR, MINEFIELDS & WHIRLWINDS APRIL 1943 PODCAST IS OUT! 18 ARRESTED AND TRIED IN JERSEY, SINKING SHIPS, RAF RAIDS AND MORE! A MINI DUNKIRK FROM JERSEY IN JUNE 1940 – MATT GAUDION PODCAST AUGUST 1942 – CRIME WAVE, JITTERY GERMANS, ARP & ESPIONAGE PODCAST MARCH 1943 – COURT CASES, DEPORTATION, BLACK MARKET AND MORE WW2TV & HISTORY UNDERGROUND VISIT GUERNSEY & ALDERNEY. GREAT FOOTAGE FOR YOU TO WATCH! LATEST PODCAST IS OUT! June 1942: A MONTH OF TURMOIL PODCAST SPECIAL – TIM OSBOURNE TOUR GUIDE AND HISTORIAN TALKS ABOUT HIS FAVOURITE GERMAN OCCUPATION BOOKS! “ROAD TO FREEDOM” WALKING TOUR 8 JUNE 2025 PODCAST SPECIAL – USE OF THE LOCAL LANGUAGE GUERNÉSIAIS, A FORM OF NORMAN FRENCH, DURING THE OCCUPATION. ZOOM Q&A Today at 15:00 GMT PODCAST SPECIAL – 80 DAYS TO LIBERATION WITH SIMON DE LA RUE. THE THREE DECORATED GUERNSEYMEN OF THE BATTLE OF TEBOURBA! SEPTEMBER 1941 – GERMANY’S GOT TALENT, AN ESCAPE FROM JERSEY AND MORE! NOVEMBER 1941 – FRITZ TODT VISITS, FRENCHMEN STRIKE, ESPIONAGE AND SPITFIRES. PODCAST MAY 1942 -CONSEQUENCES OF AN ESCAPE FROM JERSEY, INVASION PREPARATIONS, LAUGHING AT THE GERMANS AND MORE! MARCH 1942 – THE ENTIRE GUERNSEY POLICE FORCE ARE ARRESTED, GERMAN SECRET POLICE, ALDERNEY EVENTS AND A FUNNY STORY FROM JERSEY! OCTOBER 1941 PODCAST – KOMMANDANTS, REVERSE INVASION THREATS, NEUTRAL CITIZENS, AND A BIT OF DEVIATION! DECEMBER 1941 PODCAST – AMERICANS SUFFER POST PEARL HARBOUR, MILITARY ACTIVITY HOTS UP, A HUGE GUN, UNWELCOME GUESTS, FOOD AND MORE! APRIL 1942 PODCAST IS OUT.  THE POLICEMEN ARE SENTENCED, MURDER IN SARK, IMPACT OF MALNUTRITION, DEPORTATION OF JEWISH WOMEN AND MORE! PODCAST – FEBRUARY 1942 EPSIODE IS OUT! WE TALK SOME DIFFICULT TOPICS PLUS THIEVES, RATS, SPANIARDS AND MORE. PODCAST SPECIAL – NICK TALKS TO ANDY CREBER, GRANDSON OF GERMAN MEDIC WERNER RANG PODCAST SPECIAL- BOOKS WITH STEVE FOOTE! AUGUST 1941 PODCAST IS OUT! IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID! PLUS SOME STRANGE ORDERS, HORSES, A PATOIS SPEAKING GERMAN, AND MORE PODCAST SPECIAL – TIM OSBORNE TALKS A LANCASTER IN SARK, ALDERNEY & TYPHOON RAIDS APRIL 1944 – RAIDS, ESCAPES, DESPERATION AS D-DAY LOOMS