Download or read book Pilote de Guerre written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilote de Guerre written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by French & European Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1976-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilote de guerre written by Antoine Jean Baptiste Marie Roger Saint-Exupéry and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pilote de Guerre Etc written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flight to Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of a reconnaissance flight over occupied France is most probablybased on de Saint-Exupery's personal experience during World War II.
Download or read book Flight to Arras written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 Reprint of 1942 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. "Flight to Arras" is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Written in 1942, it recounts his role in the French Air Force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of flights into a single terrifying mission over the town of Arras. Saint-Exupery was assigned to Reconnaissance Group II/33 flying the twin-engine Bloch MB.170. At the start of the war there were only fifty reconnaissance crews, of which twenty-three were in his unit. Within the first few days of the German invasion of France in May 1940, seventeen of the II/33 crews were sacrificed recklessly, he writes "like glasses of water thrown onto a forest fire." Saint-Exupery 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." He remained in North America for two years, and then in the spring of 1943 rejoined his old unit in North Africa. In July 1944, "risking flesh to prove good faith," he failed to return from a reconnaissance mission over France."
Download or read book The Proof By Nine written by Denise Bonhomme and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have read and loved The Little Prince and if you like riddles, this book will probably interest you. What is the meaning of the “magnificent image” at the beginning of the first chapter? Most readers do not find it magnificent at all. Yet, those who know that “the essential is invisible to the eyes” see it as an invitation to think and to learn. The “hat” featured on the same page which actually is something else conveys another hint to look beyond appearance. As you read The Proof by Nine, you will see what is represented by the Virgin Forest mentioned on the first page of The Little Prince. You will grasp the meanings of the pilot, the little prince, the golden muffler of the title character and of the wonderful “fox.” You will see what the “children” really are. The war waged by “sheep” against the “rose” will make profound sense. You will recognize the universal symbols of the tree, the rope, the wheel and the well of science. You will be edified by the experience of the Turkish astronomer. You will observe how all that is relevant to current events and politics for, as stated by the author of The Proof by Nine, “all those things are connected.” You might even ask yourself an exciting question: “Did Saint-Exupéry see the future?” That is why The Little Prince is, in the final words of its author “so very important.”
Download or read book Images of Personal Value written by Philip Mooney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Personal Value is a book about the meaning of home and the lives we lead far from it, whether at work, in school, or in our social circle. Using contemporary dramas, movies, and works by authors Antoine de Saint Exupery and Anne Morrow Lindbergh as reference points, Philip Mooney heightens our awareness of the three attitudes we adopt towards others: functional, appreciative, and finally, personal communion.
Download or read book Vichy France and the Resistance written by Roderick Kedward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1985, examines various aspects of the intellectual achievements of writers and artists in the Vichy period; a strong emphasis on the ambiguity of much of their work emerges from the research. It goes a long way in answering the question of what it was like living under the fascist Vichy regime, and what the collaborators and resistance thought about their purpose and patriotism.
Download or read book Un pilote de chasse dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale written by Roger Saussol and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C'est le récit d'un pilote de chasse ayant participé à la bataille de France avant d'être abattu. Le manuscrit de son témoignage a été conservé dans l'intimité des papiers de famille. Sa publication laisse une trace de ce que fut le quotidien d'un groupe de chasse dans la guerre et le vécu de « l'étrange défaite » par des hommes qui ont fait face.
Download or read book Merleau Ponty s Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy written by Bryan A. Smyth and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to light the essential philosophical role of Marxism within Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this book shows that the realization of this project hinges methodologically upon a renewed conception of the proletariat qua universal class-specifically, that it rests upon a humanist myth of incarnation which, substantiated by Merleau-Ponty's notion of 'heroism', locates an objective historical purposiveness in the habituated organism of the modern subject. Foregrounding the phenomenological priority of history over corporeality in this way, Smyth's analysis recovers the 'militant' character of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology. It thus sheds critical new light on his early thought, and challenges some of the main parameters of existing scholarship by disclosing the intrinsic normativity of his basic methodological commitments.
Download or read book Vie et destin des pilotes de guerre written by Claude Carlier and published by Editions Gallimard. This book was released on 2011 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De la déclaration de guerre du 3 septembre 1939 à l’armistice du 25 juin 1940, l’armée de l’air française s’est trouvée confrontée à un adversaire redoutable : la Luftwaffe allemande. Dès le début du conflit, alors que l’attentisme sévit sur terre et sur mer, elle doit assurer des missions de reconnaissance et de chasse au-dessus du territoire ennemi au cours desquelles elle prend l’ascendant sur son adversaire. Lors de l’attaque du 10 mai 1940, elle s’efforce de faire face avec des matériels de moindre qualité, mais avec détermination, dans des missions de sacrifice. Alors que la puissance allemande s’affirme au sol, l’armée de l’air française tient tête dans les airs, détruisant en combat aérien plus d’appareils qu’elle n’en perd. C’est cette histoire, peu connue, qui est illustrée dans cet ouvrage à partir d’archives photographiques inédites du Service historique de la Défense (SHD), département Air. Elles montrent la vie quotidienne d’une base aérienne lors des différentes étapes du conflit, de la préparation des avions en usine à l’entraînement des pilotes et au départ des avions en mission pour cette « drôle de guerre » de l’armée de l’air française. Des images qui résument la force de l’engagement des pilotes de guerre. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry fut l’un de ceux-là, acteur et mémorialiste exceptionnel : « Nous sommes fin mai en pleine retraite, en plein désastre. On sacrifie les équipages comme on jetterait des verres d’eau dans un incendie de forêt. Comment pèserait-on les risques quand tout s’écroule ? En trois semaines, nous avons perdu dix-sept équipages sur vingt-trois. Nous avons fondu comme une cire. Nous savons bien que l’on ne peut faire autrement que de nous jeter dans le brasier ; si même le geste est inutile. Nous sommes cinquante, pour toute la France. Sur nos épaules repose toute la stratégie de l’armée française ! » (Pilote de Guerre, 1942). Le SHD conserve le dossier militaire d’Antoine de Saint-Exupéry comme celui de tous ses camarades pilotes : nous en présenterons quelques extraits tout au long du livre.
Download or read book After the Fall written by Nathan Bracher and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, the first critical monograph on Suite française, Nathan Bracher shows how, first amid the chaos and panic of the May-June 1940 debacle, and then within the unsettling new order of the German occupation, Némirovsky's novel casts a particularly revealing light on the behavior and attitudes of the French as well as on the highly problematic interaction of France's social classes
Download or read book Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth century Politics Diplomacy and Culture written by Gaynor Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in tribute to the work of Professor Alan Dobson, this collection of essays brings diplomacy and the Anglo-American relationship together, considering politics and foreign policy in tandem with cultural interactions. Uniquely placed to define exactly what transatlanticism is, and to explore the ways in which this idea has evolved in the last 150 years, this book asks to what extent can it be argued that there was a transatlantic world, how can it be defined and what was unique about it? With contributions from leading scholars it offers an overview of the field as well as a comparative exploration of Anglo-American relations. From emotion in foreign policy decision making, to the RAF in the Vietnam War, as well as leader personalities and transatlantic reactions to women's rights in China, Transatlanticism and Transnationalism since the First World War explores this 'special relationship' at many levels and from many angles. It further asks how this relationship has evolved over the years, and considers how it might survive in a globalized, post-industrial world.
Download or read book Kings of the Air written by Ian Sumner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simply superb! . . . easily the best book (in English) available on the French Air Service . . . The book is a gem.”—The Aerodrome In comparison to their British and German counterparts, the French airmen of the Great War are not well known. Yet their aerial exploits were just as remarkable, and their contribution to the war effort on the Western Front was equally important. That is why Ian Sumner’s vivid history of the men of the French air force during the war is of such value. He tells their story using the words of the pioneering pilots and observers themselves, drawn from memoirs, diaries, letters, and contemporary newspapers, magazines and official documents. The recollections of the airmen give an authentic portrait of their role and their wartime careers. They cover recruitment and training, reconnaissance and artillery spotting, aerial combat, ground strafing and bombing, and squadron life. They also highlight the technical and tactical innovations made during those hectic years, as well as revealing the airmen’s attitude to the enemy—and their thoughts about the ever-present threat of injury and death. “No stone unturned, well researched and well written, Kings of the Air should become the ‘go to’ title for information about the French contribution to the air war of the Great War.”—The Past in Review “The narrative provides a complete overview of developments in technology, service organization, naval aviation and the principle missions of the French Air Service, all laced with first-person accounts . . . Kings of the Air should be in the collection of any student of the first air war.”—Over the Front
Download or read book Phenomenology of Perception written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new translation, the first for over fifty years, makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers. Phenomenology of Perception stands in the great phenomenological tradition of Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre. Yet Merleau-Ponty’s contribution is decisive, as he brings this tradition and other philosophical predecessors, particularly Descartes and Kant, to confront a neglected dimension of our experience: the lived body and the phenomenal world. Charting a bold course between the reductionism of science on the one hand and "intellectualism" on the other, Merleau-Ponty argues that we should regard the body not as a mere biological or physical unit, but as the body which structures one’s situation and experience within the world. Merleau-Ponty enriches his classic work with engaging studies of famous cases in the history of psychology and neurology as well as phenomena that continue to draw our attention, such as phantom limb syndrome, synaesthesia, and hallucination. This new translation includes many helpful features such as the reintroduction of Merleau-Ponty’s discursive Table of Contents as subtitles into the body of the text, a comprehensive Translator’s Introduction to its main themes, essential notes explaining key terms of translation, an extensive Index, and an important updating of Merleau-Ponty’s references to now available English translations. Also included is a new foreword by Taylor Carman and an introduction to Merleau-Ponty by Claude Lefort. Translated by Donald A. Landes.
