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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Lusseyran, Jacques.
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Lusseyran, Jacques.
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.
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And there was light ...
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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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Lusseyran, Jacques.
Novato, California : New World Library, 2014.
Subjects
Lusseyran, Jacques.
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.
ISBN:
9781608682690 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1608682692 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description:
282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
Fourth edition, First New World Library edition.
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.
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"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"--
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
940.5344 Lusseyran Lu
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Wahiawa Public Library
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940.5344 Lusseyran Lu
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Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library
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