A Doctor's Occupation, The dramatic true story of life in

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A Doctor's Occupation, The dramatic true story of life in Nazi-occupied Jersey

Doctor John Lewis was a remarkable man. Possessed of great warmth, wit and, above all a humanity which informs every word in this extraordinary account of Jersey life during the German Occupation, he served the island community with unfailing resourcefulness and not a little courage for five long and stressful years. However, despite the awfulness of the time, Dr Lewis infuses his account of it with an irrepressible joie de vivre which is utterly delightful. It is an uplifting story of winning against the odds, by turns hysterically funny and then unbearably sad. Above all it has an immediacy which takes the reader right into the heart of the Occupation, you can smell the fear, feel the pain, suffer the loss, sense the victory as do the characters in this history and they are many and varied. You will meet the good Jersey folk like the brave and tragic Mrs Gould from St Ouens and the not so good Jersey folk in the shape of the collaborators and informers or the â€œJerry bagsâ€ like the exotic Ginger Lou. Here too you will meet some of the most wretched victims of the war, the Russian Todt workers who were hidden and helped by the locals and of course the many sorts of Germans who made up the occupying force. It is a story of compelling interest.

I had the good fortune to meet John Lewis and his wife in 1991 at his lovely Jersey home. He talked for hours that seemed like minutes of his life during the war years. He was just as Iâ€™d hoped he would be - endlessly kind, witty and understanding. I came away from that meeting feeling happy, elated and much wiser, as you will surely do after reading of the Doctorâ€™s Occupation.

John Nettles
Country USA
Author John Lewis
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 239
PublicationDate 2013-05-21
ReleaseDate 2013-05-21

Country	USA
Author	John Lewis
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	239
PublicationDate	2013-05-21
ReleaseDate	2013-05-21

A Doctor's Occupation, The dramatic true story of life in Nazi-occupied Jersey

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