John Nettles, known as TV's Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby in "Midsomer Murders," narrates the story of Germany's WWII occupation of the British Channel Islands (1940-1945). Nettles, with a history background, spent over a decade on the islands, gaining in-depth knowledge. He revisits the wartime imprints on the islands and its people, uncovering tales of remarkable and commonplace human responses in a world at war. Amid this tiny archipelago, one finds collaboration and resistance, heroism and infamy, repression, violence, denunciation, and deportation. Yet, there's also the everyday life between conquerors and the conquered.

John Nettles, known as TV's Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby in "Midsomer Murders," narrates the story of Germany's WWII occupation of the British Channel Islands (1940-1945). Nettles, with a history background, spent over a decade on the islands, gaining in-depth knowledge. He revisits the wartime imprints on the islands and its people, uncovering tales of remarkable and commonplace human responses in a world at war. Amid this tiny archipelago, one finds collaboration and resistance, heroism and infamy, repression, violence, denunciation, and deportation. Yet, there's also the everyday life between conquerors and the conquered.