Jacques Lusseyran

And There Was Light

The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New World Library
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781608682690
• ISBN-10: 1608682692
• Artikelnr.: 40193422

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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