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Paper Bullets - Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis (Paperback)
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Paper Bullets - Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis (Paperback)
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Loot Price R333
Discovery Miles 3 330
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“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or
read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On
Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new
research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for
the ages!” —Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot A
Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction Longlisted for the Carnegie
Medal for Excellence in NonfictionPaper Bullets is the first book
to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi 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 “paper bullets”—wicked insults
against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues
designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on
the British Channel Island of Jersey. Devising their own PSYOPS
campaign, they slipped their notes into soldier’s pockets or
tucked them inside newsstand magazines. Hunted by the secret field
police, Lucy and Suzanne were finally betrayed in 1944, when the
Germans imprisoned them and tried them in a court martial,
sentencing them to death for their actions. Ultimately they
survived, but even in jail, they continued to fight the Nazis by
reaching out to other prisoners and spreading a message of hope.
Better remembered today by their artist names, Claude Cahun and
Marcel Moore, the couple’s actions were even more courageous
because of who they were: lesbian partners known for cross-dressing
and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would
come to call “degenerate art.” In addition, Lucy was half
Jewish, and they had communist affiliations in Paris, where they
attended political rallies with Surrealists and socialized with
artists like Gertrude Stein.Paper Bullets is a compelling World War
II story that has not been told before about the galvanizing power
of art, and of resistance.
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