THE GREATEST PEOPLE
OVER TO YOU. By Roald Dahl. Hamish Hamilton, HESE ten short stories of airmen at war are the complement of H. E. Bates’s two famous series of air-force short stories, The Greatest People in the ~ World and How Sleep the Brave, which X superbly portrayed the characters of individuals from a dispassionate, almost Olympian viewpoint. Roald Dahl writes with a greater personal intimacy, as it were looking over the shoulders of the fighter boys as they saved the sum of things in the Battle of Britain and elsewhere. He can be much more boisterous than Bates, as for instance in an uproariously funny anecdote like "Madame Rosette." He can be dour enough as well; but normally he writes with an easy directness and economy that makes one look forward to reading more of.
his work.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 440, 28 November 1947, Page 17
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140THE GREATEST PEOPLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 440, 28 November 1947, Page 17
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