Flight To Arras
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the desperate, smoke-filled skies of France in 1940, a reconnaissance pilot is ordered on a mission so suicidal that his commanding officer barely expects him to return — this is the harrowing reality at the heart of Flight to Arras, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's searing autobiographical account of a single wartime sortie over the burning town of Arras during France's collapse before the German advance. Drawing directly from his own experience as a pilot in the French Air Force, Saint-Exupéry weaves together the physical drama of flight with profound meditations on duty, mortality, and the meaning of sacrifice, transforming a military mission into an existential reckoning. Far more than a war memoir, Flight to Arras stands as one of the defining literary documents of the Second World War, a testament to the human spirit confronting annihilation with clear-eyed courage and philosophical grace. Saint-Exupéry's prose — lyrical yet precise, intimate yet universal — carries the full weight of a civilisation in crisis, as he interrogates what it means to fight for a cause that appears already lost. First published in French as Pilote de Guerre in 1942, and rendered here in Lewis Galantière's acclaimed English translation, the book leaves the reader asking the question that haunted its author until his own disappearance over the Mediterranean in 1944: what does a man owe to the world he loves?
Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, William Heinemann Ltd
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the desperate, smoke-filled skies of France in 1940, a reconnaissance pilot is ordered on a mission so suicidal that his commanding officer barely expects him to return — this is the harrowing reality at the heart of Flight to Arras, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's searing autobiographical account of a single wartime sortie over the burning town of Arras during France's collapse before the German advance. Drawing directly from his own experience as a pilot in the French Air Force, Saint-Exupéry weaves together the physical drama of flight with profound meditations on duty, mortality, and the meaning of sacrifice, transforming a military mission into an existential reckoning. Far more than a war memoir, Flight to Arras stands as one of the defining literary documents of the Second World War, a testament to the human spirit confronting annihilation with clear-eyed courage and philosophical grace. Saint-Exupéry's prose — lyrical yet precise, intimate yet universal — carries the full weight of a civilisation in crisis, as he interrogates what it means to fight for a cause that appears already lost. First published in French as Pilote de Guerre in 1942, and rendered here in Lewis Galantière's acclaimed English translation, the book leaves the reader asking the question that haunted its author until his own disappearance over the Mediterranean in 1944: what does a man owe to the world he loves?