Flight to Arras

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547539606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
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.

Airman's Odyssey

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781774640654
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Wartime Writings 1939-1944

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156027533
Category : Air pilots, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

Night Flight

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547542798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Fasten your seatbelt to experience the spectacle and solitude of flying high in the Andes in this novel from the author of The Little Prince. No writer has equaled Saint-Exupéry in describing the perilous and poetic experience of flying, in submission to what he calls “those damn elemental divinities—night, day, mountain, sea and storm.” In this gripping, beautifully written novel inspired by his experience as a pilot in South America, he tells of the brave men who pilot night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. They are impelled to perform their routine acts of heroism by a steely chief named Rivière, whose extraordinary character is revealed through the dramatic events of a single night. Preface by André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. “The book stands out by reason of the quality of its style, the beauty of the passages in which flight is described better than it ever has been before, but more especially because of the emotions of the men of heroic mold.”—André Maurois, Saturday Review

Southern Mail

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Saint-exupery

Author: Stacy Schiff
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307798399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 887

Book Description
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.

The Pilot and the Little Prince

Author: Peter Sís
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466869526
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
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.

THE WISDOM OF THE SANDS

Author: ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Aviator

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1507173539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
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.

A Guide for Grown-ups

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547540124
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
A delightful collection of inspiring quotations from the mind of Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, author of The Little Prince. “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters—“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”—offer inspirational and thought-provoking words about the subjects held most dear by the author. A perfect gift for graduates—or for anyone who wants gentle guidance.