num_pages: 316
description: Selected as one of USA Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, this astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending — literally — to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer events, he became a leader in the French Resistance and survived the horrors at Buchenwald.
language: English
title: And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance
titlecomplete: And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance
characters: Jacques Lusseyran
genres: Autobiography, Historical, France, History, World War II, Holocaust, War, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2163
places: Paris
publisher: Morning Light Press