Florian Rochat

The Legend of Little Eagle (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the heroic story of an 18 year old WW II USAAF fighter pilot with the eyesight of an eagle and a passion for the sky. In 1944, John Philip Garreau responds to the call of war by enlisting. On a P-51 D Mustang, he quickly becomes an ace in air combat, then a double and a triple ace in the European skies.

In London, he fells in love with Muriel, a young woman whose fiancé is prisoner of the Japanese. That's war, World War II. It's complicated and Johnny Garreau wants to take some distance. He asks for a tranfer in Corsica, where he meets Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the great aviator and writer, and has with him a harrowing discussion on the « real faked death » of the Little Prince. They don't know that both of them are going to die soon.

During a mission over Burgundy, Johnny's plane is hit by the German flack. The Mustang is barely maneuvrable. First Lieutenant Garreau must make a quick decision : to bail out or to try a crash landing.

70 years later, Hélène Marchal, a French journalist, discovers his heroic behaviour. He died in his attempt to steer the plane away from a house in which was a four year old little girl : her mother. Hélène realises that she owns him her life.

Who was this young man ? Hélène only knows he was from Browning, Montana. She decides to travel there to investigate. Gradually, she will piece together the life of this pilot nicknamed Little Eagle. With hindsight, his story and this novel takes on the dimensions of a legend. And with it brings the protagonists to question their own destinies, over time and space.

Florian Rochat is a writer and journalist who lives in Switzerland. He is the author of a previous novel, "Cougar Corridor", and a memoir, "Un printemps sans chien" (both in French).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Florian Rochat
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311398956
• Artikelnr.: 52493806

Autorenporträt

Florian Rochat is a French mother tongued journalist and writer living in Switzerland. He is fond of nature and loves hiking and cross country skiing. He also likes trekking on different continents, notably North America. He went several times to Montana to research his two novels, "Cougar Corridor" and "La légende de Little Eagle", translated in English under the title of "The Legend of Little Eagle". He has a flatcoated retriever, Kidoo, and wrote a book about her and his former dog Droopy, "Un printemps sans chien".

Journaliste et écrivain,Florian Rochat vit au pied des montagnes du Jura suisse, où il pratique de manière assidue la randonnée et le ski de fond. Il aime également "trekker" dans des contrées plus lointaines et est amoureux de l'Ouest américain, notamment du Montana, "terre d'ancrage" de ses deux romans.

Les auteurs de ces régions (Jim Harrison, Rick Bass, William Kittredge, Ivan Doig, James Welch, Jim Fergus, Norman McLean, Louise Erdrich, Dan O'Brien) nourrissent ses lectures depuis plusieurs années, mais il admire aussi Philip Roth, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Connelly et John Irving.

Florian Rochat a publié deux ouvrages chez des éditeurs traditionnels: un document sur la vie au travail en France, La Saga du boulot, et Cougar corridor, roman écologique sur les lions de montagne. Convaincu des nombreux avantages - pour les auteurs comme pour leurs lecteurs - offerts par les développements de l'édition numérique, il a choisi d'autopublier son nouveau roman, La légende de Little Eagle, sous cette forme dématérialisée. Celles et ceux qui restent réfractaires aux liseuses électroniques, ou qui auraient des difficultés à les maîtriser, en trouveront cependant une version papier sur le site d'Amazon.com.