Flight to Arras - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flight to Arras write by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This book was released on 1969-10-22. Flight to Arras available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Flight to Arras - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flight to Arras write by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This book was released on 1985. Flight to Arras available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Flight to Arras - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flight to Arras write by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. This book was released on 2019-10-24. Flight to Arras available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Airman's Odyssey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Airman's Odyssey write by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This book was released on 2020. Airman's Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Night Flight
Night Flight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Night Flight write by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This book was released on 1974-03-20. Night Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
