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Flight To Arras
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1985
Flight To Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This account of a reconnaissance flight over occupied France is most probablybased on de Saint-Exupery's personal experience during World War II.
Flight To Arras
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
Flight To Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Air pilots, Military categories.
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Flight To Arras
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1969-10-22
Flight To Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969-10-22 with History categories.
The World War II aviator and author of The Little Prince tells his true story of flying a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. When the Germans first invaded France in May of 1940, the French Air Force had a mere fifty reconnaissance crews, twenty-three of which served in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Group II/33. After only a few days, seventeen of the crews in Saint-Exupéry’s unit had already perished. Flight to Arras is the harrowing story of a single mission over the French town of Arras, an endeavor Saint-Exupéry realized the futility of even as he witnessed it unfolding. Filled with tension, emotion, philosophy, and historical detail, and penned by a master storyteller, this extraordinary memoir serves as a record of a little-known chapter of the Second World War, and an unforgettable portrait of the brave souls who fought despite desperate odds.
Flight To Arras
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Author : Antoine De Saint-Exupery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-24
Flight To Arras written by Antoine De Saint-Exupery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with History categories.
Flight to Arras is a memoir recounting the author's role in the French Air Force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of his flights into a single terrifying mission over the town of Arras. At the start of the war there were only fifty reconnaissance crews, of which twenty-three were in his unit. Within the first few days of the German invasion of France in May 1940, seventeen of the crews were sacrificed recklessly, he writes "like glasses of water thrown onto a forest fire". Saint-Exupéry survived the French defeat but refused to join the Royal Air Force over political differences with de Gaulle. In July 1944, "risking flesh to prove good faith", he failed to return from a recon mission over France.
Airman S Odyssey
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2012-10-15
Airman S Odyssey written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with Literary Collections categories.
Three award-winning works of adventure, survival, and the early days of aviation from the celebrated author of The Little Prince, collected in one volume. Ranging from the northern skies of France to the South American Andes, this volume includes two memoirs and a novel, each informed by the lauded pilot and poet’s experiences as a pioneering aviator during World War II. Wind, Sand and Stars Recounting his early days flying airmail routes across the African Sahara, Saint-Exupéry explores the spiritual, philosophical, and physical wonders of navigating the passes of the Pyrenees, the peaks of the Andes, and the wasteland of the Libyan desert. This memoir, a National Book Award winner that was voted a National Geographic Top Ten Adventure Book of All Time, is “a beautiful book, a brave book, and a book that should be read against the confusion of this world” (The New York Times). Night Flight Overseeing night-mail flights in Buenos Aires, Riviere is a believer in remaining faithful to the mission and has trained his pilots to stave off the fear of death. But when he discovers that one of his planes is lost in a storm after flying out of Patagonia, both his authority and his beliefs will be challenged, in a novel that won France’s Prix Femina Award and was made into a classic film. Flight to Arras Saint-Exupéry’s memoir of a harrowing reconnaissance mission during the Battle of France in 1940—as one of only a handful of pilots who continued to fight in solidarity against the inevitable German invasion—was a recipient of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Aéro-Club de France. “Saint-Exupéry . . . blends adventure with reflection in a way few writers have.” —Richard Bach Translated by Lewis Galantière and Stuart Gilbert
Wind Sand And Stars And Flight To Arras
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Wind Sand And Stars And Flight To Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Air pilots, Military categories.
Airman S Odyssey
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Airman S Odyssey written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Air pilots categories.
Night Flight
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1974-03-20
Night Flight written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-03-20 with Fiction categories.
Fasten your seatbelt to experience the spectacle and solitude of flying high in the Andes in this novel from the author of The Little Prince. No writer has equaled Saint-Exupéry in describing the perilous and poetic experience of flying, in submission to what he calls “those damn elemental divinities—night, day, mountain, sea and storm.” In this gripping, beautifully written novel inspired by his experience as a pilot in South America, he tells of the brave men who pilot night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. They are impelled to perform their routine acts of heroism by a steely chief named Rivière, whose extraordinary character is revealed through the dramatic events of a single night. Preface by André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. “The book stands out by reason of the quality of its style, the beauty of the passages in which flight is described better than it ever has been before, but more especially because of the emotions of the men of heroic mold.”—André Maurois, Saturday Review
Wind Sand And Stars Flight To Arras
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Wind Sand And Stars Flight To Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Wartime Writings 1939 1944
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Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
language : en
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date : 2002-11-04
Wartime Writings 1939 1944 written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and has been published by Mariner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-04 with Air pilots, Military categories.
A reconnaissance pilot for France during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupery spent many dangerous days in the air above enemy occupied territory. "Wartime Writings" recounts some of his aviation exploits.