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DESCRIPTION:“This is a Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read\, a story with two unlikely heroines who risked their lives in their subversive—and often wildly creative—struggle to face down evil. Paper Bullets prompts us to explore the boundaries of art\, love\, gender\, and politics—and to question the true meaning of courage.” \n  \nThe Whiting Library Book Club is holding our monthly book discussion at the library in the community room (masks required!) and simultaneously live on Zoom. The book for June is Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson. Copies are available at the library right now! All are welcome to attend whether this is your first book club ever or you were born at a book club. We love to talk books! \nIf you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club\, please contact Deirdre at the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277. \n  \nMore about the book:\nPaper 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. \nHunted 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. \nBetter 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. \nPaper Bullets is a compelling World War II story that has not been told before\, about the galvanizing power of art\, and of resistance.\nFrom Amazon
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