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Over to You brings together 10 of Roald Dahl's earliest stories, many of them set during the Second World War and drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot. It includes his first paid piece of writing, the short story A Piece of Cake, which was originally published in 1942 in American magazine The Saturday Evening Post under the title Shot Down Over Libya.
The 10 stories featured are:
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Death of an Old, Old Man
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An African Story
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A Piece of Cake
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Madame Rosette
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Katina
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Yesterday Was Beautiful
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They Shall Not Grow Old
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Beware of the Dog
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Only This
- Someone Like You
Contained in:
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: Volume I
Kiss, Kiss / Over to You / Switch Bitch / Someone Like You / Four Tales of the Unexpected / My Uncle Oswald
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Previews available in: Russian English Dutch
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World War II, Royal Air Force, resistance to interrogation, hard water, soft water, World War, Aeronautics, Literature, Air pilots in fiction, Fiction, Air pilots, Aeronautics in fiction, Young Adult, short stories, English short stories, Fiction, general, English literature, World War, 1939-1945, British Aerial operations, English War stories, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Romans, nouvelles, Opérations aériennes britanniques, Récits de guerre anglais, Nouvelles, Aerial Military operations, BritishPeople
God, Peter WilliamsonPlaces
Africa, Greece, Great Britain, Vichy France, Brighton, EnglandTimes
20th century, 1941-45Showing 4 featured editions. View all 18 editions?
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Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
1991?, Penguin Books
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Over en Sluiten
1988-10, Meulenhoff
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9029035722 9789029035729
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Over to you: ten stories of flyers and flying
1973, Penguin, Penguin Books
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Originally published, New York: Reynal and Hitchcock London: Hamilton, 1946.
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