Island of Dread In the Channel
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Author_Brian Bonnard
Biographies & Memoirs
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History
Military History
Military History of Strategy
Military History of World War II
Social & Urban History
War & Defence Operations
Warfare & Defence
World War Two
WWII
Product details
- ISBN 9781848683617
- Weight: 311g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2009
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Georgi Kondakov was sixteen years old when he was brought to Alderney in August 1942 with about 1,000 other young Russians to build part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall defences. During this time he suffered the hardships of having little nourishing food, inadequate clothing, occasional beatings, no medical attention and hard manual work twelve hours a day; under such harsh conditions many people died. Some of the survivors were taken back to France in 1943. Georgi escaped from the train taking them to Germany and joined the French Resistance in Paris. Two years after his return to Russia, when the War ended, he was sent to a Siberian labour camp by Stalin, where he endured even worse conditions for 4A years before being allowed home to Orel in 1951. Many years later, the interchange of a long series of Georgi's letters, translated by Galina Chernakova, resulted in this book which offers an insight into the experiences of a slave-worker and his return to Alderney, as an honoured guest, in 1990.
Brian Bonnard is an extremely well-known author and has written several books on Alderney. He has made several appearances on Channel TV regarding local ecological and botanical matters. Brain was also a regular on BBC Radio Guernsey, where he gave talks on Alderney Natural History and historical matters. Brian lives on Alderney.
