Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis is 11th and 12th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 9 |
SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 11 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
The estimated word count of Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis is 101,835 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 48 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 19 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 47 mins.
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis - 101,835 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 11 hrs 19 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 6 hrs 48 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 47 mins |
for Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
“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 Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionPaper 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. Hunted 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. Better 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.Paper Bullets is a compelling World War II story that has not been told before, about the galvanizing power of art, and of resistance.