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Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume includes the aviator's letters to friends, autobiographical fragments, and meditations.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Published: 1990-11-01
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ISBN-13: 9780685477007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Published: 1986-07-01
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ISBN-13: 9785551566472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stacy Schiff
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2011-07-27
Total Pages: 887
ISBN-13: 0307798399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language. An impoverished aristocrat from one of France's oldest families, Saint-Exupéry moved at age twenty-seven to the western Sahara Desert, to live alone in a plank shack and manage the way station for the Aéropostale, the French mail service. His careers as a novelist and an aviator were born here, and his life once he returned to Europe was defined--with brilliant and catastrophic results--by the sense of isolated fascination and curiosity he developed in the desert. In this definitive biography, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff reveals an intrepid and unconventional life that rivals the best adventure stories.
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780156947039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 5th and last volume of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's diaries and letters record the Lindbergh's lives during the years of World War II.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2002-05-01
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 0547540124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA delightful collection of inspiring quotations from the mind of Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, author of The Little Prince. “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters—“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”—offer inspirational and thought-provoking words about the subjects held most dear by the author. A perfect gift for graduates—or for anyone who wants gentle guidance.
Author: Iris Origo
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0749040548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is quite impossible to attach importance to material possessions now. All that one still clings to is a few vital affections' Iris Origo, October 1943. Marchesa Iris Origo and her husband had been settled at their rural estate of La Foce since 1924. When the Second World War broke out Origo, an Englishwoman married to an Italian landowner, had divided loyalties. But as the war dragged on and the hostilities escalated, the small community of Val d'Orcia found themselves helping evacuees, orphans, refugees, prisoners of war and soldiers from both sides, concerned less with who was fighting whom than caring for those who needed their aid. Origo kept her diary throughout this time, when the risk of betrayal was a fact of life and the penalty for helping the enemy would result in death. Even with German troops occupying her manor house, she wrote at night about her valiant attempts to shelter refugees, burying her diary in the garden each morning. The result is a book which has become a classic, an affirmation in itself of courage and resistance, and an unsentimental, compelling story of the trials and tragedies of wartime.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781774640654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rosemary Bailey
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2010-12-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0297856170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid blend of history and travel and a sweeping story of collaboration and resistance, fear and heroism, pacifism and sacrifice all set against the backdrop of the Pyrenees. 'A beguiling mix of travel, memoir, history and good old-fashioned storytelling - a slice of hidden France' Kate Mosse 'Combining memoir, fact and storytelling, Bailey does an impressive job' INDEPENDENT 'A moving account of of the region during World War Two' TIME OUT Over the fifteen years Rosemary has been living in the region, the more she realised she didn't know about the war; about the French during the Occupation, the real role of the Resistance, the level of collaboration, the concentration camps in the Pyrenees and the treatment of Jews and other refugees. It is still very much a veiled history and most of the archives remain firmly closed. LOVE AND WAR IN THE PYRENEES is a portrait of human tragedy, heroism and cruelty that will create a picture of the period from a contemporary angle, the history linked to sights that can still be visited, and brought to life by letters, interviews and encounters with people today, including the historians currently trying to investigate what really happened.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: HMH
Published: 1969-10-22
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0547539606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World War II aviator and author of The Little Prince tells his true story of flying a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. When the Germans first invaded France in May of 1940, the French Air Force had a mere fifty reconnaissance crews, twenty-three of which served in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Group II/33. After only a few days, seventeen of the crews in Saint-Exupéry’s unit had already perished. Flight to Arras is the harrowing story of a single mission over the French town of Arras, an endeavor Saint-Exupéry realized the futility of even as he witnessed it unfolding. Filled with tension, emotion, philosophy, and historical detail, and penned by a master storyteller, this extraordinary memoir serves as a record of a little-known chapter of the Second World War, and an unforgettable portrait of the brave souls who fought despite desperate odds.
