Title : War Pilot - Saint Exupéry - book Summary : In June 1940, the 2/33 reconnaissance group lost seventeen of its twenty-three crews in futile missions. In turn, Saint-Exupéry, captain pilot, and his observer, Lieutenant Dutertre, were summoned by Commander Alias. Their task: "Fly over the tank parks in the Arras region at an altitude of 700 meters. - It's very annoying...", said the commander. "Mission sacrificed," thought those involved. They would nevertheless obey "as one saves rites when they no longer have any meaning." Ceremonial dressing, daily gestures of the trade, it is the departure and it will be, interrupted by the need to monitor the inhaler, to fight against the frozen rudder, to maintain contact with the other members of the crew, interrupted by the enemy fighters and the anti-aircraft guns, a long meditation on the absurdity in which France is plunged: absurdity of the administrative machine, of the villages which, from Dunkirk to Alsace, burn for nothing, of the exodus, of this stubbornness to play the game of war, without illusion, and to sacrifice men to it. "The meaning of death must balance death", and death here means nothing. Yet France did well to accept this war, to refuse the reasons of the intelligence which predicted disaster to listen to the Spirit which reminded it that each one is always responsible for all, that it is responsible for the world and that its role is through this sacrifice to call the world to the defense of threatened civilization. What is the meaning of this civilization? The dive into the Arras Apocalypse, from which the crew miraculously emerges unharmed, provides the answer.
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