Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Jeffrey H. Jackson
“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground "Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!” —Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Paper 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.
Award History
0 wins · 1 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionMajor | 2021 | Longlist | Official source |
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01 Central figures
- Lucy Schwob92%
- Suzanne Malherbe88%
02 Central places
- Jersey78%
03 Suggested argument
The book argues that Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe’s anti-Nazi “paper bullets,” using avant-garde artist skills, demoralized Nazi troops and supported an audacious resistance campaign on Jersey.
Model confidence 62%
04 Reading orientation
35 / 100 academicSerious trade
An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.
Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 81%.