Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying

By Roald Dahl

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Roald Dahl's first collection of short stories for adults, published in 1946, contains ten tales of pilots and flying. They draw on his own wartime service as an RAF pilot, which included a serious crash in North Africa. The stories depict air battles, being shot down and the chaos of war, as well as everyday life in RAF messes and operations rooms. This edition appears in the Penguin Modern Classics series.

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