And There was Light : : the Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
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Translation of: Et la lumière fut.
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.
"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.
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PUBLISHED
Novato, California : New World Library, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781608682690 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1608682692 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Cameron, Elizabeth R. 1907-
SUBJECTS
Lusseyran, Jacques.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French.
Prisoners of war -- France -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
Guerrillas -- France -- Biography.
Blind -- France -- Biography.