The Story

Sark is a beautiful island just off the coast of Guernsey. The island is tiny, measuring in at an endearing 2.10 miles squared and its cosy community live harmonious and isolated lives.

 

​The island is so small that cars are banned, not that they are needed as it takes a mere 40 minutes to get from one side to the other on foot. However despite its peaceful atmosphere Sark has had turbulent times. The Nazis occupied the Channel Islands in the 1940s including Sark right up until 1945. Our story is about the second more recent and more ridiculous attempted occupation of the island.

 

​In August 1990, Andre Gardes, a French physicist attempted a bold one-man invasion attempt on the tiny, photogenic island of Sark. What followed was, by far, the most ridiculous and short lived occupations in history. But who was Gardes? What lead him to attempt such a bizarre invasion.

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The Man Who Tried To Steal An Island, is a fictionalized account of the tragi-comic life of Andre Gardes​​