Name: Flight to Arras
ISBN: 9780156318808

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This account of a reconnaissance flight over occupied France is most probablybased on de Saint-Exupery's personal experience during World War II.

Flight to Arras

Gavin

An elegy written during the defeat of France; I've never found anything this nationalist moving before. Probably because it is about the nation's failure rather than shining destiny. 

The central thought is that war is futile and absurd but that he must continue. The existentialism can get kind of leaden in comparison to his other stuff.