Very beautiful testimony about friendship

Saint-Exupéry wrote this book in 1940 first in Lisbon and then when it sailed to the United States after the Armistice and having fought in the air (it will relate to New York in the months who will follow in his remarkable "War Pilot").

Nostalgia patriot abandoning his country in danger, hurt, defeated, miserable mingles with that of his friendship with Léon Werth, friend and fellow Jew threatened by the Nazi hatred.

The text, short, is praise human rights, respect for the human condition, resistance against fanaticism and friendship. This book prelude to the future involvement of the author in the Free French Forces where he will find death.

You understand, this beautiful book is to read.