JACO LE MAGNIFIQUE. Journal d'un pilote de la France Libre.

Editor's note:
This book relates a very beautiful and great adventure. That of a young Frenchman bruised by the defeat of 1940 who escapes on a Breton lobster boat, to continue fighting for freedom. Jacques "Jaco" Andrieux's diary, tells simply, quickly, always with emotion, discoveries, learning, the daily life of a Free French pilot transplanted to British soil, in English fighter aviation. The incessant battles he fought in the RAF Squadron, the risks, the victories, the loneliness of the hunter, the camaraderie, the brotherhood, the life, are transcribed in a simple, lively and effective writing with the impression of be in the middle of the action. Each page exhales its share of images, sounds, smells, but also feelings, doubt, joy, where death and life simply mix. General Andrieux tells us about his battles over the English Channel, Dieppe, the landing, in the sky of France which is free and over dying Germany.
The story of this man is part of History itself. This story full of panache, is breathless, traversed by a dazzling breath, that of Jaco the magnificent.