War Pilot The One on the Road As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Pilot

The book summarizes months of flight in a single mission over the city of Arras. Saint-Exupéry was assigned to Reconnaissance Group II / 33 to fly the twin-engine Potez 637. At the start of the war there were only fifty reconnaissance crews, of which twenty-three were in his unit. Within the first days of the German invasion of France in May 1940, seventeen of the crews were recklessly euthanized, he wrote: like glasses of water thrown on a forest fire.About the Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, was born in Lyon, France, in 1900, and died on the island of Riou, France as well, in 1944. He was an aviator and writer. Part of his experience as a pilot inspired him to write The Little Prince. Most of his literary production was written during his exile in the United States, a country to which he was assigned with the mission of convincing the American government to declare war on Germany during World War II.