The Model Occupation

Madeleine Bunting is a superb chronicler of what happened - if you want a classic example of the dilemmas of Resistance, here it is. – Professor Norman Stone * The Times *
A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane – Hugh Trevor-Roper * Sunday Telegraph *
I am full of admiration for this book. By careful research and sensitive use of light and shade, Ms Bunting holds the reader’s attention through an uncomfortable passage in our history - and one which we have been most reluctant to inform ourselves – Alan Clark * Guardian *
Excellently researched… This book…is an important historical document, if an uncomfortable one, in the understanding of our national character – John Mortimer * Sunday Times *
[An] excellent book…thoroughly unflinching, fair-minded, humane and sensitive – Jonathan Keates * Evening Standard *
Scolarly and immensely readable – Jack Higgins * Mail on Sunday *
A scrupulously fair account of life under occupation * New Statesman and Society *

Madeleine Bunting was born in North Yorkshire. After studying history at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, she won a Knox postgraduate fellowship to study and teach history at Harvard University. She worked for an independent television production company, joining the Guardian as a reporter in 1989. She became the newspaper’s religious affairs correspondent in 1995.

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