And there was light
Subtitle: the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II
By: Jacques Lusseyran ; translated from the French by Elizabeth R. Cameron
Contributors: Cameron, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ripley), 1907- translator
Edition: [Fourth edition].
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781608682690
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Blind; German Prisoners and prisons; Guerrillas; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; French Personal narratives; Biography
Work titles: Et la lumière fut
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 Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--
Notes: Translation of: Et la lumière fut.
Table of contents: title: Clear water of childhood; title: Revelation of light; title: The cure for blindness; title: Running mates and teachers; title: My friend Jean; title: The visual blind; title: The troubled earth; title: My country, my war; title: The faceless disaster; title: The plunge into courage; title: The brotherhood of resistance; title: Our own defense of France; title: Betrayal and arrest; title: The road to Buchenwald; title: The living and the dead; title: My new world.