Flight to Arras (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
252
Utgivningsdatum
2015-11-19
Förlag
Martino Fine Books
Översättare
Lewis Galantiere
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 14 mm
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9781614278931

Flight to Arras

av Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Häftad,  Engelska, 2015-11-19
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2015 Reprint of 1942 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. "Flight to Arras" is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Written in 1942, it recounts his role in the French Air Force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of flights into a single terrifying mission over the town of Arras. Saint-Exupery was assigned to Reconnaissance Group II/33 flying the twin-engine Bloch MB.170. 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 II/33 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 and in late 1940 went to New York where he accepted the National Book Award for "Wind, Sand and Stars". He remained in North America for two years, and then in the spring of 1943 rejoined his old unit in North Africa. In July 1944, "risking flesh to prove good faith", he failed to return from a reconnaissance mission over France.
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