Plays / novels about occupation

[archiebrown]

A slightly odd question perhaps, but does anyone know of any plays or novels written from the perspective of an occupied people?

[quizbag]

You could try The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. A beautiful book about ordinary Germans under Nazi rule. Stick with the first few pages as it is quite difficult to get into, but it is one of my favourite books.

[VHG]

You could see if there is a novel written about the occupation of the Channel Islands by the Germans during the second world war.

I have read a couple of factual books, but I am sure there must a be a few novels written by people who lived on Jersey or Guernsey about that time.

A search in Amazon may find one.

[Rosetta]

here are a couple from Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Resistance-Memoirs-Occ upied-Agnes-Humbert/dp/0747595976/ref=pd_ts_b_ 51?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Occupation-Ordeal-1940 -44-Ian-Ousby/dp/0712665137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 &s=books&qid=1229011838&sr=1-1

There is also the Diary of Anne Frank

[Rosetta]

sorry, I think I misunderstood your question

[kettledrum]

Appointment with Venus by Jerrard Tickell - fiction, but based on a real incident on Sark during WW2.

[joggerjayne]

Does Captain Correlli's Mandolin count ?

[Tom Braider]

The Moon is Down - written in 1942 by John Steinbeck - depicts Nazi occupation of a fictional Scandinavian town. You can read the whole thing here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~attwoods/moon1.html

[fairkatrina]

translations by brian friel is a classic play about occupation. it's set in Ireland during the time when the English came over and changed all the places names from the Gallic.

[jno]

SS-GB by Len Deighton about the Nazi occupation of Britain. Plus I think there was a similar one by Robert Harris recently but I can't remember its name and can't get onto Amazon at the moment to check it :-(

[jno]

oh, I was thinking of Fatherland, but that isn't really about occupation, it's set in Germany after Germany won the war. But SS-GB is set in Britain.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SS-GB-Len-Deighton/dp/ 0224016067/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229 129880&sr=1-1

There's also a film, It Happened Here

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/848466/It-Happe ned-Here/Product.html

[kernowgirl99]

There is a somewhat obscure novel set in Guernsey during the German occupation called "The Book of Ebenezer Le Page". I forget the author but a Google or Amazon may elucidate.

[Quizmonkey]

The play Andorra by Max Frisch.