The many enthusiasts Saint-Exupery, this book provides, for the period 1939-1944, a set of documents and testimony, sometimes known but dispersed or inaccessible, often unpublished, that light strongly his attitude during the war and destiny. In 1939, while Saint-Exupery won a resounding success with Terre des Hommes, he was mobilized in Toulouse as a monitor, but he wants to be fighting and struggling to get there. After the memorable flight reconnaissance Arras is the debacle and the armistice. He left Bordeaux for North Africa, where he thinks of ways to continue the fight. He hopes that the United States take up arms, and at the end of 1940, he moved to New York. While continuing to work at Citadel manuscript he prepared at the request of his publishers free of the Battle of France. Fighter pilot (released February 1942), followed in early 1943, Letter to a Hostage and The Little Prince. In Paris, at the same time, the collaborationist press unleashed will prohibit the French edition of Pilot war ... During his exile, Saint-Exupery suffers from the division of the French and the hostility of the "super-patriots" to overseas. Thus, from the landing of 1942, he try to join his group recognition, reconstituted in North Africa. Having joined Algeria and unity in the spring of 1943, he will play against him the age limit and stop flying. Several months pass in solitude and suffering that many letters reveal here. When finally get back to his squadron, it will multiply the missions on the continent busy and fulfilled, July 31, 1944, that he will not return.

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