How Sleep the Brave

Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X'

H.E. Bates

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Vintage
01 November 2002

Second World War fiction; History

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

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

'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

First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer X, H. E. Bates's stories of the heroic exploits of British bomber crews during the Second World War created a sensation when they appeared in 1942, selling over two million copies all over the world. Bates lived among the painfully young pilots and recorded their lives, and those of their loved ones, with an emotional attention that deeply moved the generation that lived through the war, and an intensity that reverberates down the decades.

By: H.E. Bates
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 149g
ISBN: 9780099442035
ISBN 10: 0099442035
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 November 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

H. E. Bates (Herbert Ernest) was born in Northamptonshire in 1905. He joined the RAF during the Second World War, before continuing his writing career. He died in 1974.

Reviews for How Sleep the Brave: Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X'

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 * H.E. Bates could achieve a quality of lyrical intensity that few contemporary novelists can match * Times Literary Supplement * One of the most vividly evocative writers of English ... able to conjure up in a handful of words whole landscapes and moods * Listener * 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 These stories, wry, often poignant, still move the reader today * The Times *