It was a September evening when Nicol returned home from his job as a solicitor’s clerk to find that the Germans had announced the internment of all persons not born on the island of Jersey. They were all to report to the harbour in St Helier next morning with no more than one suitcase apiece. It was 1942 and Nicol had just turned 18.
The next day he and…
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