Title And there was light : 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.

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Novato, California : New World Library, 2014.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	940.5344 LUSSEYRAN	Check Shelf

Edition	Fourth edition, First New World Library edition.
Description	282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents	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.
Summary	"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.
Note	Translation of: Et la lumière fut.
Subject	Lusseyran, Jacques.
	Lusseyran, Jacques. (OCoLC)fst00177449
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	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.
	Blind. (OCoLC)fst00834291
	Guerrillas. (OCoLC)fst00948935
	Prisoners of war. (OCoLC)fst01077227
	Underground movements, War. (OCoLC)fst01355184
	France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
	Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Chronological Term	1939-1945
Genre/Form	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Autobiography.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Personal narratives -- French. (OCoLC)fst01424110
Added Author	Cameron, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Ripley), 1907- translator.
Added Title	Et la lumière fut. English
ISBN	9781608682690 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	1608682692 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9781608682706 (ebook)
	1608682706 (ebook)

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