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Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying

by Roald Dahl

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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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504282W/Death_of_an_Old_Old_Man) - [An African Story](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504280W/An_African_Story) - [A Piece of Cake](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504283W/A_Piece_of_Cake) - [Madame Rosette](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504284W/Madame_Rosette) - [Katina](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504285W/Katina) - [Yesterday Was Beautiful](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504287W/Yesterday_Was_Beautiful) - [They Shall Not Grow Old](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504289W/They_Shall_Not_Grow_Old) - [Beware of the Dog](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504290W/Beware_of_the_Dog) - [Only This](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504291W/Only_This) - [Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15348115W/Someone_Like_You) ---------- Contained in: [The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: Volume I](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45794W) [Kiss, Kiss / Over to You / Switch Bitch / Someone Like You / Four Tales of the Unexpected / My Uncle Oswald](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504258W)

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