Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
About this book
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:
- 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
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
Subjects
- aerial military operations
- aeronautics
- aeronautics in fiction
- air pilots
- air pilots in fiction
- atrocities
- british
- british aerial operations
- english literature
- english short stories
- english war stories
- fiction
- fiction, general
- guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
- hard water
- jews
- literature
- nouvelles
- opérations aériennes britanniques
- récits de guerre anglais
- resistance to interrogation
- romans, nouvelles
- royal air force
- short stories
- soft water
- world war
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war ii
- young adult