And There Was Light
The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
by Jacques Lusseyran
Pub Date 18 Mar 2014
I am reviewing a copy of And There Was Light through New World Library and Netgalley:
Jacques Lusseyran was an unlikely hero of the the French Resistance during World War 2. Blinded at the age of eight by a freak accident. After completing his schooling he was determined to take part in the world around him. When he was seventeen in 1941 that world was Nazi occupied France.
Lusseyran managed to form a resistance group of fifty two boys. He used his heightened senses to recruit the best. He would later be sent to Buchenwald Concentration camp in a transport of over 2000 Resistance fighters he was one of only thirty to survive that transport.
This gripping story is one of the most gripping stories of how one man can truly make a difference, a man who just happened to be blind.
I give And There Was Light five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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