Over To You
A War, Short Stories, Fiction book. Mostly known for his wonderful children's books, Roald Dahl also wrote a...
During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert. Drawing on his own experience as a fighter pilot, Dahl crafted these ten spine-tingling stories: of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; of the infectious madness of conflict; and of the nervy jollity of the Mess and Ops room. Dahl brilliantly conveys the bizarre reality of a wartime pilot's daily existence, where death is a constant companion and life is lived from one heartbeat to the next.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9780141189659 / 141189657
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Mostly known for his wonderful children's books, Roald Dahl also wrote a number of short stories - including one of my all time favourites, in which a leg of lamb is used as a murder weapon. That story's not in this collection, however. The ten stories here are all themed around the experiences of British airmen in WW2. Dahl himself... Roald Dahl is, funny and at times induces curiosity but I have always found him a bit weird and distrurbing. I have read extensivly about war inthe air and looked forward to this book when i found it. It was very disappointing, in fact quite shallow and did not live up to the billing that it got. It just reinforced the feeling I have... Full review at The Pluviophile Reader: http://wp.me/p3VFNP-273/5 stars.ebook, 164 pages.Read from December 16 to 24, 2013.This collaboration of stories emphasizes Dahl's experiences as a flying ace for the RAF during World War II. I imagine that Dahl used many personal references and emotions in these stories, though from what I can...
