| Writing in the Shadow: Resistance Publications in Occupied Europe Contributor(s): Stone, Harry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0714642576 ISBN-13: 9780714642574 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1996 Annotation: A man with earphones crouched in a darkened attic listening in to a concealed and forbidden crystal set; a prisoner continuing to write even in the condemned cell; young men taking up weight-lifting so that they would be able to carry heavy lead type with apparent ease; a group of men taking over at gunpoint the staff of a pro-Nazi newspaper and forcing them to print an ironic bogus issue - these were just a few of the many hundreds of ordinary people who helped to produce and distribute the clandestine newspapers that sought to counter Nazi propaganda and maintain morale in enemy-occupied Europe during the World War II. The risks were terrifying; if caught with even a single copy of a forbidden publication the culprit would be tortured and executed, and many were. Yet the work went on, thwarting German controls and even forcing the Nazis to change some of their policies. Writers and publishers too refused to be silenced and many found lasting fame through clandestine books: for instance, the poet Jan Campert, the Danish pastor Kaj Munk, and "Vercors," author of "Le Silence de la Mer," which was later made into a classic film. Courage, skills and ingenuity were stretched to the full in the resistance to Nazi repression that found expression, no matter how dangerously, in the thousands of newspapers, pamphlets, books, poems and songs that appeared in the dark days of occupation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - Social Science | Media Studies - Political Science | Security (national & International) |
| Dewey: 940.533 |
| LCCN: 91043781 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (0.90 lbs) 222 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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| Publisher Description: The first complete national and international survey in the English language of the clandestine newspapers and books published in the occupied countries of Europe during the Second World War. A man with earphones crouching in the attic listening in with a crystal set, a prisoner writing fearfully even in the condemned cell, youths taking courses in weightlifting so as to be able to carry cases of lead type with apparent ease: these are just some of the people who helped produce clandestine newspapers and books in the occupied countries of Europe during the Second World War. Writing in the Shadow describes the risks these people ran and the ingenuity and brilliant improvisation they used to hoodwink the Nazis and distribute newsletters to tens of thousands of people. |