Flight to Arras

✍ Scribed by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• Publisher: Mariner Books;Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1299903150

✦ Synopsis

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 ll/33. After only a few days of the invasion, 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 unfold. 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.