Flight to Arras, (Paperback)

from Chris_El

A French pilot talking about his scouting flight flown while the German's were pouring into his country like a flood. The French high command was in disarray and he felt his scouting flight was probably useless and likely to get him killed. But he went anyway. Along the way on this one flight he ...

from lamour

As the last days before the fall of France in 1940 approach, Saint Exupery & his fellow flyers face almost certain death with every flight. This volume is his description of the recon flight he ton to Arras and what went through his mind as he flew. He describes the plight of the refugees fleeing...

from hellbent

The first part was exciting, but then Exupery becomes rather philosophic and the book gets bogged down into an anti-war polemic.

from whwatson

My first introduction to Saint-Exupery came in 1993 when Outside Magazine published a list of the Top 25 best adventure books written over the last 100 years. Saint-Exupery's book Wind, Sand and Stars headed that list. Today some critics still claim that that book is the best one ever written on ...

from Stbalbach

Saint Ex's account of flying recon in the opening days of the German invasion of France. He recounts highlites of the time by condensing it into a single account of a flight over the enemy town of Arras. I found it to be a good account of what its like to be on the edge of death, depressing and m...