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Antoine de Saint-Exupery was the French answer to Charles Lindbergh, a pilot whose feats became so legendary that he was known familiarly as Saint-Ex. As a young man between the wars, he flew the mails across the French empire, survived a crash in the Sahara, and celebrated the joy and freedom of the air in a rapturous literary style all his own. Apatriot through and through, he fought in the French air force, took the defeat of 1940 very hard, and left an account of his experiences as a combat pilot. For a while afterward, he was in New ...