And there was light, the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II, Jacques Lusseyran ; translated from the French by Elizabeth R. Cameron
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And there was light, the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II, Jacques Lusseyran ; translated from the French by Elizabeth R. Cameron
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
And there was light
Oclc number
855580512
Responsibility statement
Jacques Lusseyran ; translated from the French by Elizabeth R. Cameron
Sub title
the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II
Summary
"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Clear water of childhood -- Revelation of light -- The cure for blindness -- Running mates and teachers -- My friend Jean -- The visual blind -- The troubled earth -- My country, my war -- The faceless disaster -- The plunge into courage -- The brotherhood of resistance -- Our own defense of France -- Betrayal and arrest -- The road to Buchenwald -- The living and the dead -- My new world
Target audience
adult
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- Prisoners of war -- France -- Biography
- Blind -- France -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 + Underground movements -- France
- Lusseyran, Jacques
- Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Guerrillas -- France -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 + Prisoners and prisons, German
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French
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- Prisoners of war -- France -- Biography
- Blind -- France -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 + Underground movements -- France
- Lusseyran, Jacques
- Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Guerrillas -- France -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 + Prisoners and prisons, German
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French
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