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And there was light the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II

"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 DeĢfense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--Pr...

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Main Author: Lusseyran, Jacques
Other Authors: Cameron, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ripley), 1907- (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: Novato, California : New World Library, 2014.
Edition:Fourth edition, First New World Library edition.
Subjects:
Prisoners of war > France > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Germany > Biography.
Guerrillas > France > Biography.
Blind > France > Biography.
Biographies.
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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.

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