Nancy's Reviews > The Soldier's Wife  The Soldier's Wife by
Margaret Leroy  's review Jun 18, 11  Read in June, 2011  My
take: I had no idea there were these little cow islands between
the British Isles and the continent until I read The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society a few years ago. Now I just
want to go visit them. But definitely not during a war. Even
more definitely not during a time they are occupied by another
country working on a little genocide. Just to summarize, there
are a few little islands nobody really cared much about that
happened to be strategically located between the European
continent and the British Isles. The Nazis invaded and built an
airfield. This made it particularly convenient for bombing
London.  The residents of these islands left, for the most part.
There were, however, a large portion who didn't believe the war
would touch them. The Nazis bombed the crud out of the island to
soften them up then peacefully docked their ships, landed their
planes and walked right i