Part biography, part history — all informative
Jan 8, 2021 |
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson (c.2020, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) $27.95 336 pages.
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If you’re patient, that’s how you break big things into very little things. One pebble taken from here, another small stone removed from there — and over time, you undermine the structure. It’s the same for dams, walls, foundations, people and, in the new book
Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson, it’s the same for wartime operations.
Twenty-six-year-old Lucy Schwob and her lover, 28-year-old Suzanne Malherbe, had never lived apart from their families in Nantes, France. But one day in 1920, they were on their way to their new lives together in Paris. It hadn’t been long since the end of World War I, and life seemed exciting and fresh.