Pilote de Guerre (French Edition) [Paperback]

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: French & European Pubns (February 26, 1976)
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 0828837325
• ISBN-13: 978-0828837323
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,094,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY (1900-1944) was born in Lyons, France. He took his first flight at the age of eleven, and became a pilot at twenty-six. He was a pioneer of international commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince; Wind, Sand and Stars; and Southern Mail. In 1944, while serving with his French air squadron, he disappeared during a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Friendship, War and Poetry, January 18, 2001

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This review is from: Pilote de Guerre (French Edition) (Paperback)

The book of the millenium. A theme of friendship, loneliness and war written as poetically as only Saint-Excupery can do it. Prepare for a journey into the harsh life of an emotional war pilot as he struggles to stay alive and win the war while not betraying his humanity and conscience.

4.0 out of 5 stars France on its knees, May 1, 2011

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This review is from: Pilote de Guerre (French Edition) (Paperback)

Saint Exupery is sent on a pointless reconoissance mission over France when the whole country is being evacuated to nobody knows where, when its army is nothing but groups of men disconnected from any chain of command, when the German armoured divisions are cutting through France like a knife on butter. While on the air he reflects on its defeated nation, on what makes a nation. His narrative is both vibrant and very intimate, soul seeking and bluntly honest.