PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book. 

All the Light We Cannot See: A 30-minute Summary of Anthony Doerr's Novel

Inside this Instaread Summary:

• Overview of the entire book
• Introduction to the Important people in the book
• Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book
• Key Takeaways of the book
• A Reader's Perspective

Preview of this summary:

Part Zero

Chapter 1

Just ahead of an American attack, leaflets fall from the sky to warn residents of a city to evacuate.

Chapter 2

Twelve American bombers cross the English Channel.

Chapter 3

Marie-Laure LeBlanc sits alone inside her great-uncle Etienne’s home in Saint-Malo. She hears planes flying overhead. A flyer warning of an impending assault by American bombers lands near her, but she is blind and cannot read it.

Chapter 4

Private Werner Pfennig wakes in the Hotel of Bees where his unit is billeted in Saint-Malo. A corporal orders him to go to the cellar. The hotel once was a privateer’s lair. It is fortress-like and houses an antiaircraft gun manned by a crew of Austrians.

Chapter 5

The townspeople who have not evacuated awake to the noise of guns and planes amid the shower of leaflets. In a fortress, the last German bastion on the Breton coast, French prisoners peer up at the sky. 
Other sieges have rocked the city of Saint-Malo over the centuries, but none like this...

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