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Promise at Dawn

“You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d`Annunzio, Ambassador of France!”For his whole life, Romain Gary`s fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did. This, his thrilling, wildly romantic autobiography, is the story of his journey from poverty in Eastern Europe to the sensual world of the Cote d`Azur and on to wartime pilot, resistance hero, diplomat, filmmaker, star and one of the most famed French writers of his age.

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