Flight to Arras Contributor(s): Saint-Exupery, Antoine De (Author) |
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ISBN: 1773236164 ISBN-13: 9781773236162 Publisher: Must Have Books OUR PRICE: $9.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Military - Aviation |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 820 |
Physical Information: 0.29" H x 6" W x 9" (0.42 lbs) 124 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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-Exup ry 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. |