02336cam a2200433 i 4500 161765822 TxAuBib 20140610120000.0 131206s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013042898 9781608682690 pbk. : alk. paper 1608682692 pbk. : alk. paper 9781608682706 ebook 1608682706 ebook TxAuBib rda eng fre Lusseyran, Jacques. Et la lumière fut English. And there was light [TP] : 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. Fourth edition, First New World Library edition. Novato, California : New World Library, 2014. pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20140610. 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. Cameron, Elizabeth R., 1907-, (Elizabeth Ripley.)