Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
Worth buying if: You relish Roald Dahl's wartime anecdotes and sharp-ascent prose.
Skip it if: You expect Dahl's children's fantasy rather than adult wartime stories.
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Summary
This 1991 Penguin collection gathers Roald Dahl's ten aviation stories—episodes of combat, training, mishap, and memory—blending technical detail about aircraft with Dahl's dark irony and characters tested under flight conditions.
Why this book now
Penguin's 160-page Over to You brings Dahl's lesser-known flying tales back into focus for readers curious about wartime aviation and the author's early short fiction voice.
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Good fit if you want...
- You relish Roald Dahl's wartime anecdotes and sharp-ascent prose.
- You want compact aviation fiction featuring cockpits, pilots, and aerial mishaps.
- When you seek historical richness, the scenes are sensory and immediate.
- You expect Dahl's children's fantasy rather than adult wartime stories.
- You prefer long-form novels over short-story collections about flying.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
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Exact edition: Paperback · ISBN-13 9780140035742
Worth buying if: You relish Roald Dahl's wartime anecdotes and sharp-ascent prose.
Skip it if: You expect Dahl's children's fantasy rather than adult wartime stories.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Light Short sit-downs
At about 160 pages, Over to You is a short-story collection you can finish in a few focused sittings, each story readable in one evening.
What stands out here
This Penguin Group USA edition emphasizes Dahl's aviation phase—concise stories that foreground pilots, aircraft details, and wartime atmosphere.
Best way to approach it
Read slowly to absorb Dahl's technical cockpit descriptions and moral undertones; treat each story as a discrete flight with its own tempo and landing.
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Paperback: ISBN-13 9780140035742
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