Oh God, how I am frightened.
An edition of Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
(1946)
Over to You
Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
by Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl was badly wounded in Libya during the war, but he went on to serve in the RAF in Greece and Syria. In these spine-tingling tales of battles in the sky - and in the psyche - he draws on his own experiences and those of his friends and colleagues to convey the bizarre reality of a pilot's existence.
From the nervy jollity of life in the Ops room and the Mess in 'Death of an Old Old Man' to the nightmarish horror of being shot down in 'A Piece of Cake', or the infectious madness of war in 'Someone Like You', these stories capture with chilling clarity the experience of living with the daily possibility of extinction.
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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
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Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
1991?, Penguin Books
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0140035745 9780140035742
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Over en Sluiten
1988-10, Meulenhoff
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9029035722 9789029035729
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First Sentence
"Oh God, how I am frightened."
Table of Contents
Death of an old, old man. --
An African story. --
A piece of cake. --
Madame Rosette. --
Katina. --
Yesterday was beautiful. --
They shall not grow old. --
Beware of the dog. --
Only this. --
Someone like you.
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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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