The Real Secret Society of the Channel Islands

While all the Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society hid from the Germans was a roasted pig, there were actually many real groups on the island sneaking out past curfew and meeting at covert locations during the Occupation.
A file of papers discovered decades after the war, having spent many years stuffed into a briefcase in the back of a wardrobe, documents the many individuals and groups who worked as part of a secret resistance in the Channel Islands.
Frank Falla who compiled the huge archive of personal accounts, which is currently being studied at Cambridge University, details his own actions during the resistance, along with a group of four friends who created the Guernsey Underground News Service, abbreviated as GUNS.
With radios confiscated and TV forbidden, Islanders were completely cut off from Britain with any information about the progress of the war filtered and distorted by Nazi propaganda. The Guernsey Underground News Service (GUNS) relied on people with secret radios listening carefully to the BBC News and carefully preparing newsletters to covertly distribute the news around the island. These updates of how the war was progressing did much to boost morale in Guernsey during these tough times.