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The Stories of Flying Officer X by H.E. Bates (Large Print Book) Heroic stories of the exploits of British pilots during the Second World Ward
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"These stories, wry, often poignant, still move the reader today" (The Times)
"After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as one of the best short-story writers of my time" (Graham Greene)
"One of the most vividly evocative writers of English ... able to conjure up in a handful of words whole landscapes and moods" (Listener)
"H.E. Bates could achieve a quality of lyrical intensity that few contemporary novelists can match" (Times Literary Supplement)
"He was without an equal in England in the kind of story he had made his own and stood in the direct line of succession of fiction writers of English countryside and that includes George Eliot, Hardy and D. H. Lawrence" (The Times)
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"After 60 years of writing and reading, I would place H.E. Bates as one of the best short-story writers of my time" (Graham Greene)
"One of the most vividly evocative writers of English ... able to conjure up in a handful of words whole landscapes and moods" (Listener)
"H.E. Bates could achieve a quality of lyrical intensity that few contemporary novelists can match" (Times Literary Supplement)
"He was without an equal in England in the kind of story he had made his own and stood in the direct line of succession of fiction writers of English countryside and that includes George Eliot, Hardy and D. H. Lawrence" (The Times)
Heroic and moving accounts of the R. A. F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May
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- PublisherChivers Press
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0851191207
- ISBN 13 9780851191201
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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