A Fair and Honest Book

It was in a diary that he kept while in prison in Paris that Sherwill gave the first indication that he had it in his mind to write a book. Faced with what he anticipated would be a very long term of imprisonment in an entry dated 13th November 1940 he wrote: I think when I am really settled in I will write a book on the German Occupation of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Not a thriller but a fair and honest book... Early in 1943 together with a large party of other islanders he was deported from Guernsey to Ilag VII Laufen in Bavaria. Here he began to work on his book. However on 29th June 1943 some four and half months after his arrival having been elected by his fellow internees Sherwill became pretty fully occupied as British Camp Senior for the rest of the 'duration' and so did not continue my literary activities. Ambrose Sherwill by then Sir Ambrose resumed writing his memoirs after retiring from the office of Bailiff of Guernsey in 1960. (Second Edition)