This is not a novel. It is a testimony, real property, poignant, remarkable simplicity and humanity of a Tiger pilot officer who fought in Afghanistan and Libya. As a former driver, I could not not read this little book of a hundred pages, which are covered the twenty-first century soldiering, fire baptism, death, sense of duty, comradeship The psychological consequences of combat, through two conflicts which most French had only perception "media". It reveals the middle of combat helicopters and men and women of the Army Light Aviation (ALAT) that serve them. An environment unknown to the general public, but whose action in Afghanistan, Libya and Mali was decisive.