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

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...