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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.
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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.
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.)