The birds helped us too
Again, a wartime recollection of hiding from an implacable enemy. People were warned by magpies, who could tell that the...
To go or not to go
The Hungarian poet György Faludy weighs up whether to stay in Hungary or to leave at the start of the...
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...
Expert in the next room
Saint-Exupéry, on the aerial front line of a desperate war effort, sums up the difficulties facing the French military leadership;...
What is peace?
Listening time: under 4 minutes. This is Saint-Exupéry's definition of peace, in which everything is in its place and friends...
They understood everything
It seems cows are clever than we may have given them credit for. This is a recollection of the Second...
Flung into the fire
Saint-Exupéry, himself one of the fire-flung pilots of the French air force in the early, desperate days of the war,...
As indispensable as …
A life-line for a Second World War pilot was the rubber tube. Saint-Exupéry's account vividly describes the physicality and encumbrance...
Like beads of a rosary
Perhaps a calming image, until you realize what it is being used to describe.  I recall my father's recounting his childhood...
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