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4 unusual facts about Flight to Arras


Flight to Arras

The work was later adapted, by Rod Wooden, in 1998 as a radio drama by BBC Radio 4, with David Threlfall playing the role of the pilot.

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.

The book condenses months of flights into a single terrifying mission over the town of Arras.

Orconte

He evokes this period and the farm (opposite the church) where he lived in Pilote de guerre, translated into English as Flight to Arras.



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