And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

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The e book that helped encourage Anthony Doerr’s All the Gentle We Can’t See

An up to date model of this vintage International Battle II memoir, selected as probably the most 100 Very best Religious Books of the 20th Century, with a brand new photograph insert and restored passages from the unique French edition

When Jacques Lusseyran used to be an 8-yr-vintage Parisian schoolboy, he used to be blinded in an coincidence. He completed his education decided to take part on this planet round him. In 1941, while he used to be seventeen, that International used to be Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran shaped a resistance staff with fifty- boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the most productive. Sooner or later, Lusseyran used to be arrested and despatched to the Buchenwald focus camp in a delivery {of of 2} thousand resistance opponents. He used to be one among handiest thirty from the delivery to continue to exist. His gripping tale is among the such a lot robust and insightful descriptions of dwelling and thriving with blindness, or certainly any problem, ever printed.

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