Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying

One of the few writers I know whose work can accurately be described as addictive Irish Times During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and suffered horrific injuries in an air crash. In these tales that draw on his war experiences, he conveys the bizarre reality of life in the air and the nervy jollity of the Mess and Ops room. Here, pilots struggle with the arbitrary fate that falls on the innocent along with their bombs, and soothe their consciences by adopting an orphaned girl into their squadron. The daily confrontation with risk and the infectious madness of conflict inform these terrifying stories by a master of the genre.