Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
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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 ex...
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Number of Pages: 158
ISBN: 0140035745
ISBN-13: 9780140035742
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There are many more ‘worthier’ novellas and story collections I could mention here. But I simply think that Roald Dahl’s works for adults gets massively overlooked as it must live under the giant shadow of his books for children. Which are of course iconic and brilliant and essent...
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There are many more ‘worthier’ novellas and story collections I could mention here. But I simply think that Roald Dahl’s works for adults gets massively overlooked as it must live under the giant shadow of his books for children. Which are of course iconic and brilliant and essential. This collection deals with tales from Dahl’s experience as a fighter pilot. Bracing, pulse-quickening and extremely readable.
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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.
--back cover
(From Goodreads)