#underground-publishing

#underground-publishing

In 1941, during the German occupation of France, the then relatively unknown writers Jean Bruller and Pierre de Lescure came together to edit, publish and distribute a book called Le Silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea). The story centred on two family members who refuse to speak to the officer occupying their house - their way of maintaining control of a tense dynamic and a rejoinder to the Nazi propaganda campaigns and newspaper censorship widespread in France at the time.