Pilote de guerre - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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WRITTEN IN FRENCH
In Pilot de guerre, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an air officer at the group II/33, evokes his own mission of aerial reconnaissance of 23 May 1940 over Arras, on which the threat of German tanks is then hanging over. He was escorted to this extremely perilous mission by five hunters from...
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WRITTEN IN FRENCH
In Pilot de guerre, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an air officer at the group II/33, evokes his own mission of aerial reconnaissance of 23 May 1940 over Arras, on which the threat of German tanks is then hanging over. He was escorted to this extremely perilous mission by five hunters from Group I/33.
This exceptional edition of the text, published on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the French defeat of June 1940, is enriched by the washes of Bernard Lamotte, great friend of Saint-Exupéry, made for the original edition of the book published in the United States in February 1942, under the title Flight to Arras.
The original French edition, published by Gallimard in December 1942 and withdrawn from sale by the German authorities in January 1943, was not illustrated.
French
152 pages
Éditions Gallimard
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