Paper bullets : two women who risked their lives to defy the Nazis
Jackson, Jeffrey H., 1971-2021
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'Paper Bullets' tells 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 demoralise Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on the British Channel Island of Jersey. Devising their own 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.
Main title:
Paper bullets : two women who risked their lives to defy the Nazis / Jeffrey H. Jackson.
Author:
Imprint:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.
Collation:
336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781643752051 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5342341
Language:
English
Subject:
Channel Islands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- JerseyCahun, Claude, 1894-1954Malherbe, Suzanne, 1892-1972World War, 1939-1945 -- PropagandaWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the warWarfare and DefenceUnited Kingdom, Great Britain20th century, c 1900 to c 1999History of artBiography: generalEuropean history
BRN:
2576589