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GtrsRGr8 · 03-28-2015, 02:38 AM

Being the uncultured bumpkin that I am, I had never heard of this book before now, even though it has been around since at least publication in 1963.

The current edition was first published just over a year ago. My source indicates that it hasn't been marked down from that time until now. Grab the ebook now. Or wish later that you had.

And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II. By Jacques Lusseyran. Rated 5 stars, from 29 reviews, and 4.23/5.00, from 791 ratings at GoodReads at the present moment. Print list price $15.95; digital list(?) price $9.99; Kindle price now $0.99. New World Library, publisher. 306 pages.

Book Description
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.

03-28-2015, 02:38 AM	#351
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Touching, Inspiring Story of a Blind French Resistance Fighter in WWII--99 Cents. Being the uncultured bumpkin that I am, I had never heard of this book before now, even though it has been around since at least publication in 1963. The current edition was first published just over a year ago. My source indicates that it hasn't been marked down from that time until now. Grab the ebook now. Or wish later that you had. And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II. By Jacques Lusseyran. Rated 5 stars, from 29 reviews, and 4.23/5.00, from 791 ratings at GoodReads at the present moment. Print list price $15.95; digital list(?) price $9.99; Kindle price now $0.99. New World Library, publisher. 306 pages. Book Description 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. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-28-2015 at 03:05 AM.