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And There Was Light

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

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And There Was Light

By: Jacques Lusseyran
Narrated by: Andre Gregory
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This digital audiobook was created from the only remaining analog source and contains a slight tape hiss.

When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.

©2014 New World Library (P)2014 New World Library Biographies & Memoirs Europe France Historical Military Wars & Conflicts World War II War Inspiring Heartfelt Thought-Provoking Memoir

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This is a beautiful story of a good man and his honest testimony. It has inspired and humbled me. If you, like myself, are yearning for some small ray of heaven's light to shine through the hellish evil of the holocaust, please listen to this.

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The author describes his perceptive interior experiences with such unmistakable vividness that becomes a participatory spiritual journey for us.

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What an amazing man. I don't know what else to say. Words cannot express how much i recommend this title. The first horror story of ww2 suffering made beautiful.
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I will listen to this again and again. The word "Inspiring" doesn't do it justice.

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