Dassault Aviation

first novels. But the public had been prepared by factual, cynical, heroic accounts of the war and novels which used their authors’ combat experience as a background to other stories, as in Joseph Kessel’s L’Équipage (1923), an early example of the aviation novel later successfully exploited by Saint-Exupéry. Faced with postwar hardships, the book-buying public welcomed kinds of writing which transported them beyond their everyday, urban 450 BEYOND ‘LITERATURE’ horizons. They continued to