FOREWORD This is a personal record of the Occupation of the Island of Jersey during the Second World War, from June, 1940 to May, 1945. It makes no pretension to be an official statement on what took place during those years. It is merely a record of the events as they came to the notice of the writer. There is thus a freshness about descriptions both of people and things which is usually absent from purely historical statements. A narrative which will certainly thrill the reader. The main portions of this account of the five most troubled years of Jersey's history were written during the Occupation. So, in many respects, one was unable, as it were, to see the wood because of the trees. The material has been re-arranged for publication. The impressions recorded are those of the times, and it is hoped that they will leave in the mind of the reader a picture of things as they were. Philip Frederick Le Sauteur July, 1960. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author's thanks are due to the following for permission to use the copyright material: H.M. Government, through H.M.S.O., U.S.A. Government, through the Office of the Assistant Secretary of  Defence, Washington, D.C., The States of Jersey, The Editor of the Evening Post, Jersey.