Over to You
Subtitle: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1991?
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780140035742
Copyright date: 1946
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; General; Fiction - General; Fiction; Fiction / Literary; Aeronautics
First sentence: Oh God, how I am frightened.
Description: 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
Notes: UK
Table of contents: title: Death of an old, old man. --; title: An African story. --; title: A piece of cake. --; title: Madame Rosette. --; title: Katina. --; title: Yesterday was beautiful. --; title: They shall not grow old. --; title: Beware of the dog. --; title: Only this. --; title: Someone like you.