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Flying Officer X's identity is now an open secret, and this one-volume edition of the stories of "The Greatest People in the World" and "How sleep the brave" can be added to the collection of H. E. Bates's work. 'His material is, of course, magnificent, and he makes very moving use of it. And... read more

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Every morning when I came downstairs I sat in the mess and looked for it in the papers. "Last night our bombers", I would read. "Yesterday evening at dusk a strong formation. "But what I really looked for was never there.

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It's never in the papers
There's no future in it
The young man from Kalgoorlie
It's just the way it is
The sun rises twice
No trouble at all
A personal war
K for Kitty
The greatest people in the world
How sleep the brave
The beginning of things
The Disinherited
Croix de Guerre
Yours is the Earth
There's something in the air

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  1. england
  2. herbert e. bates
  3. pilots
  4. r.a.f.
  5. short stories
  6. wwii 

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