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Flight to Arras
A work of Non-fiction by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Subgenres:
- World War II,
- Military Memoir,
- Aviation History
This book is for you if you're into...
- Firsthand accounts of WWII reconnaissance flights with staggering loss
- Philosophical memoirs that wrestle with futility and courage
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.
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