War on the Margins
Libby Cone
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France has just fallen to the Nazis. Britain is under siege. As BBC bulletins grow more and more bleak, residents of Jersey abandon their homes in their thousands. When the Germans take over, Marlene Zimmer, a shy clerk at the Aliens Office, must register her friends and neighbours as Jews while concealing her own heritage, until eventually she is forced to flee. Layers of extraordinary history unfold as we chart Marlene's transformation from unassuming office worker to active Resistance member under the protection of Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who manage to find poetry in the midst of hardship and unimaginable danger. Drawn from authentic World War II documents, broadcasts and private letters, War on the Margins tells the unforgettable story of the deepening horror of the Nazi regime in Jersey and the extraordinary bravery of those who sought to subvert it.About the Author
I am a radiologist who was bored with work, and embarked on a ten-year odyssey to get an MA in Jewish Studies. My thesis, now the novel War on the Margins, is about the Holocaust playing out in microcosm on the Channel Island of Jersey, which was occupied by German soldiers and Nazi functionaries for the duration of World War II. I stumbled on this topic while looking for the Isle of Man, because I love cats and wanted to learn more about the Manx breed. As a result of my research I am also now a big fan of the photography of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, two of the real-life islanders in my book, and I look forward to my next trip to Jersey.
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Format
Paperback
256 pages pages
Author
Libby Cone
Publisher
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Publication date
26th August 2010
Author's Website
ISBN
9780715639726
