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Full retreat, full disaster

Saint-Exupéry uses a vivid simile to highlight the desperate and futile cost of trying to stem what was (at that...

Listening time: under 4 minutes. This is Saint-Exupéry's definition of peace, in which everything is in its place and friends...

Saint-Exupéry, himself one of the fire-flung pilots of the French air force in the early, desperate days of the war,...

Clemency Burton-Hill describes the sight that greeted friends of the composer and pianist Erik Satie when, following his death in...

Flying a tiny, fragile aircraft on a reconnaissance sortie, Saint-Exupéry finds the rudder has frozen, and nearly gives himself a...

Saint-Exupéry, on the aerial front line of a desperate war effort, sums up the difficulties facing the French military leadership;...

A life-line for a Second World War pilot was the rubber tube. Saint-Exupéry's account vividly describes the physicality and encumbrance...

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