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Jackson, Jeffrey H., 1971- author.
Subjects
Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954.
Moore, Marcel, 1892-1972.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Jersey.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
Lesbian artists -- France -- Biography.
French -- Jersey -- Biography.
Psychological warfare -- Jersey -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jersey.
Channel Islands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
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Paper bullets : two ...
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Paper bullets : two artists who risked their lives to defy the Nazis / Jeffrey H. Jackson.
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Jackson, Jeffrey H., 1971- author.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
Subjects
Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954.
Moore, Marcel, 1892-1972.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Jersey.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
Lesbian artists -- France -- Biography.
French -- Jersey -- Biography.
Psychological warfare -- Jersey -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jersey.
Channel Islands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
ISBN:
9781616209162 hardcover
161620916X hardcover
Description:
326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Prologue: "They have not caught you this time" -- Learning to resist. "Jealous, exclusive passion": Paris in the 1920s -- "A professional smile-and voilà!" -- "I sensed the war coming (without wanting to believe it)" -- Fighting the Nazis. "It will take much, much longer than you think" -- War without end -- "News service" for the Germans -- The indirect effect -- The soldier with no name -- The deportations -- "Jesus is great-but Hitler is greater" -- Arrest and trial. "Come in...gentlemen" -- "It becomes quite impossible to trace back the origin of a particular idea" -- "I would live one day at a time" -- "I am prepared to acknowledge anything of ours" -- "Good night, my poor little chick" -- "We are at the show" -- "This strange dream" -- "Lullaby for one condemned to death" -- "Any minute now" -- Lucy and Suzanne in peacetime. "A place more deserted than the desert" -- Epilogue: Why resist?
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Summary:
"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"--
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