Download or read book Promise at Dawn written by Romain Gary and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 Côte d'Azur and on to wartime pilot, resistance hero, diplomat, filmmaker, star and one of the most famed French writers of his age.