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Books : Flight to Arras (Penguin Modern Classics)
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 Rating: - Short but unforgettableA short but searing personal account of a suicidal reconnaissance mission flown as France was collapsing before the Nazi surprise attack. From the vantage point of this short flight, Saint Exupery saw the whole tragedy: the population of the North taking to the roads south, unable to bear the repetition of the pain that they had suffered less than a quarter of a century earlier, and the utter impossibility of getting any help to the elderly reservists that faced the blitzkrieg. To read ... Read More Rating: - Surrender Monkeys?A short but searing personal account of a suicidal reconnaissance mission flown as France was collapsing before the Nazi surprise attack. From the vantage point of this short flight, Saint Exupery saw the whole tragedy: the population of the North taking to the roads south, unable to bear the repetition of the pain that they had suffered less than a quarter of a century earlier, and the utter impossibility of getting any help to the elderly reservists that faced the blitzkrieg. To read ... Read More Rating: - Saint Exupery at his most philosophicalFlight to Arras is one of the best of Saint-Ex, and bears comparison with Sartre - most obviously the Roads to Freedom trilogy. This is Saint-Ex at his most existential, yet still with his own humanism intact. It contrasts with "Requiem for Battleship Yamato", Saburo Sakai and others as the participant's description of a kamikaze mission (except this case is even more pointless), yet from a French perspective. Why should someone undertake such a mission ? Why is it right to do so, and most ... Read More Rating: - Flight, and life through the eyes of a superb writer-pilotI bought this book on a wet Cornish holiday in '63 because it had a crude scrawl of an aeroplane on the cover, and I like flight. I little dreamed that by such pure chance I had picked up a masterpiece, but I had. St. Exupery was one of those superb freaks that - all too infrequently - nature can produce: a man of action with the mind of a philospher and the soul of a poet, with the ability to express them all with lucid clarity. He was said to be a terrible pilot, and intellectuals will pooh-pooh ... Read More Rating: - A fascinating account of flying and life by a superb authorI bought this book on a wet Cornish holiday in '63 because it had a crude scawl of an aeroplane on the cover, and I like flight. I little dreamed that by pure chance I had picked up a masterpiece, but I had. St. Exupery was one of those superb freaks that - all too infrequently - nature can produce: a man of action with the mind of a philospher and the soul of a poet, with the ability to express them all with lucid clarity. He was said to be a terrible pilot, and intellectuals will pooh ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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