Flight To Arras

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547539606
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight to Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by HMH. This book was released on 1969-10-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156318808
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight to Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of a reconnaissance flight over occupied France is most probablybased on de Saint-Exupery's personal experience during World War II.

Author : Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773236162
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight to Arras written by Antoine De Saint-Exupery and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781774640654
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airman's Odyssey written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156027533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wartime Writings 1939-1944 written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter Sís
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466869526
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilot and the Little Prince written by Peter Sís and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Sís's remarkable biography The Pilot and the Little Prince celebrates the author of The Little Prince, one of the most beloved books in the world. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot—and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before. He and his fellow pilots traveled to faraway places and discovered new ways of getting from one place to the next. Antoine flew over mountains and deserts. He battled winds and storms. He tried to break aviation records, and sometimes he even crashed. From his plane, Antoine looked down on the earth and was inspired to write about his life and his pilot-hero friends in memoirs and in fiction. A Frances Foster Book This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544128087
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airman's Odyssey written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Mail written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1976 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307798399
Total Pages : 883 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint-exupery written by Stacy Schiff and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language. An impoverished aristocrat from one of France's oldest families, Saint-Exupéry moved at age twenty-seven to the western Sahara Desert, to live alone in a plank shack and manage the way station for the Aéropostale, the French mail service. His careers as a novelist and an aviator were born here, and his life once he returned to Europe was defined--with brilliant and catastrophic results--by the sense of isolated fascination and curiosity he developed in the desert. In this definitive biography, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff reveals an intrepid and unconventional life that rivals the best adventure stories.

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1507173539
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aviator written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aviator is the first story by writer Antonie de Saint-Exupéry. In 1926, Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry la publie dans la Navire d’argent, la revue don’t Jean Prévost est secrétaire de rédaction.