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Jeffrey H. Jackson

Biography

Jeffrey H. Jackson

Jeffrey H. Jackson is Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. An expert on European history and culture, he is the author of PARIS UNDER WATER: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 and MAKING JAZZ FRENCH: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris. He has appeared in documentary films and helped develop Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story for PBS’s Great Performances.

Jeffrey H. Jackson

Books by Jeffrey H. Jackson

by Jeffrey H. Jackson - History, 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. Hunted by the secret field police, Lucy and Suzanne were finally betrayed in 1944, when the Germans imprisoned them. But even in jail, they continued to fight the Nazis by reaching out to other prisoners and spreading a message of hope.