VTG Flight to Arras, Saint-Exupery, 1942 1st ed/2nd printing HC no DJ Good

Description: Please see photos and read description. I am happy to provide additional photos and answer question. A copy of Flight to Arras, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Reynal & Hitchcock, NY, 1942. This is a first American edition,second printing. Saint-Exupéry's memoir Flight to Arras recounts his role in the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force) as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of flights into a single, terrifying mission over the town of Arras. Saint-Exupéry was assigned to Reconnaissance Group II/33 flying the twin-engine Bloch MB.170. At the start of the war there were only fifty reconnaissance crews, of which twenty-three were in his unit. Within the first few days of the German invasion of France in May 1940, seventeen of the II/33 crews were sacrificed recklessly, he writes, "like glasses of water thrown onto a forest fire". Saint-Exupéry survived the French defeat but refused to join the Royal Air Force over political differences with Charles de Gaulle, and in late 1940, went to New York where he accepted the National Book Award for Wind, Sand and Stars. He remained in North America for two years, and then in the spring of 1943 rejoined his old unit in North Africa. In July 1944, "risking flesh to prove g A very nice copy. Please read condition for full description.

Price: 31.25 USD

Location: Alexandria, Virginia

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