Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis 161620916X, 9781616209162

"A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read." --Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers

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Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
161620916X, 9781616209162

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Jeffrey H. Jackson

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: “They Have Not Caught You This Time”
I. Learning To Resist
1. “Jealous, Exclusive Passion”: Paris in the 1920s
2. A Professional Smile—and Voila!”
3. “I Sensed the War Coming
II. Fighting the Nazis
4.“It Will Take Much, Much Longer Than You Think”
5. War without End
6. “News Service” for the Germans
7. The Indirect Effect
8. Soldier with No Name
9. The Deportations
10. “Jesus Is Great—but Hitler Is Greater”
III. Arrest and Trial
11. “Come in . . . Gentlemen”
12. “It Becomes Quite Impossible to Trace Back the Origin of a Particular Idea”
13. “I Would Live One Day at a Time”
14. “I Am Prepared to Acknowledge Anything of Ours”
15. “Good Night, My Poor Little Chick”
16. “We Are at the Show”
17. “This Strange Dream”
18. “Lullaby for One Condemned to Death”
19. “Any Minute Now”
IV. Lucy and Suzanne In Peacetime
20. “A Place More Deserted Than the Desert”
Epilogue: Why Resist?
The Story behind the Story: A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Notes

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