Flight to Arras Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery 'Flight to Arras' is an account of a reconnaisance flight over France, as the Nazis are pouring into the country, and the French government is retreating in chaos. One of the few remaining planes in the French airforce is sent on a futile reconnaissance flight, with no expectation of surviving the trip. — The book is told from the perspective of ... more »the pilot. The flight and its dangers are background to his philosophical musings.« less