Promise at Dawn

You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele dAnnunzio, Ambassador of France! For his whole life, Romain Garys 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 CĂ´te dAzur and on to wartime pilot, resistance hero, diplomat, filmmaker, star and one of the most famed French writers of his age.