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
Genres
- 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
- British
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