And There Was Light
The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
3rd Edition
Published on 18. March 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-60868-269-0 (ISBN)
Description
"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 Defense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--
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Edition
3rd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Novato, CA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60868-269-0 (9781608682690)
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Jacques Lusseyran
And There Was Light
The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
E-Book
02/2014
New World Library
€14.49
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Person
Jacques Lusseyran (1924-1971) became a professor in the United States at Case Western Reserve University after World War II. He died in a car accident in France.
Content
1. Clear Water of Childhood
2. Revelation of Light
3. The Cure for Blindness
4. Running Mates and Teachers
5. My Friend Jean
6. The Visual Bind
7. The Troubled Earth
8. My Country, My War
9. The Faceless Disaster
10. The Plunge into Courage
11. The Brotherhood of Resistance
12. Our Own Defense of France
13. Betrayal and Arrest
14. The Road to Buchenwald
15. The Living and the Dead
16. My New World
Epilogue
Addendum
2. Revelation of Light
3. The Cure for Blindness
4. Running Mates and Teachers
5. My Friend Jean
6. The Visual Bind
7. The Troubled Earth
8. My Country, My War
9. The Faceless Disaster
10. The Plunge into Courage
11. The Brotherhood of Resistance
12. Our Own Defense of France
13. Betrayal and Arrest
14. The Road to Buchenwald
15. The Living and the Dead
16. My New World
Epilogue
Addendum