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

Lusseyran, Jacques (Author). Cameron, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ripley), 1907- (translator.).

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781608682690 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781608682706 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: Fourth edition, First New World Library edition.
Publisher: Novato, California : New World Library, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Translation of: Et la lumière fut.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.