Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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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