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NEW BOOK ON WARTIME GUERNSEY – A CHILD’S WAR BY MOLLY BIHET

By GuernseyAdmin on Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Guernsey

Isle News, 16 April 2009 – A Child’s War, by Molly Bihet, re?tells the story of Germany’s Occupation of Guernsey through the eyes of a young girl.

Molly’s touching account of life in Guernsey during the German Occupation brings the events of the Second World War to life through the eyes of a young child.

The Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be occupied during the Second World War and many Islanders were immediately imprisoned.

Molly’s story begins on a lovely afternoon on the 28th of June 1940, when she recalls waving a recently bought cucumber at planes flying over the harbour, only to realise that they were German planes when they started to machine-gun and bomb the previously peaceful harbour.

Molly’s recollection of her childhood engages the reader from beginning to end and provides a charming account of her early life set against the backdrop of war.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Molly Bihet was born, and grew up, in Guernsey. She was just nine at the start of the Second World War. She now lives with her husband and has two daughters.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Publication:    April 2009
Price:    £12.99
ISBN:    978-1-84868-205-4
Size:    235 x 165mm
Binding:    Paperback
Extent:    96 pages – 56 illustrations

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