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Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Maybe someday
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Author:
Jeffrey H. Jackson
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Date:
November 10, 2020
The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women--Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe --who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler and calls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as 'paper bullets,' designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the British Channel Islands.
What The Reviewers Say
... a captivating tale of queer love and resistance during World War II.
As Jackson expertly describes, Cahun and Moore may have seemed unlikely candidates for the resistance.
Jackson winds readers through their often devastating journey to make it out alive at the end of the war.
... fascinating.
