Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Flight to Arras

Flight to Arras is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery. 
ISBN: 9780141183183
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Page: 160
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2007
Format: Book
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Language: English

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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.

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