Pilote de guerre
Memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Written in 1942, it recounts his role in the French Air Force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. Saint-Exupéry survived the French defeat but refused to join the Royal Air Force over political differences with 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 good faith", he failed to return from a reconnaissance mission over France
Print Book, English, 1942
Gallimard, Paris, 1942