The little Prince. Planet of people

The work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)-French writer, poet and pilot knows the Russian reader on two small works: the storyteller “Little Prince” and the Roman Essisment “Planet of People”.
Autobiographical essay on pilots “Planet of people” (1939) Exupery devoted to one of his colleagues Henri Guillaume. Exupery himself at different times served as an ordinary in aviation troops, flew on postal lines, was the head of the airfield, a test pilot, and during the Second World War served in an aviation intelligence group. Therefore, he knew the life of the pilots firsthand.
“Little Prince” (1942) - a sad, lyrical and wise fairy tale about a person’s love and responsibility for everything that is expensive for him. The drawings in the book are made by the author himself and are no less famous than the book itself. “... All adults were at first children, only few of them remember this ...”-A. de Saint-Exupery.
In 1944, Exupery went into the flight of intelligence to prepare the landing in the south of France , occupied by the Nazis. The plane did not return to the base, and its pilot was declared missing