An RAF pilot tries to make his way across the desert, which he is told will be 'a piece of cake;' he is shot down and spends several days delirious before waking in the hospital.
Note from RoaldDahlFans.com: "In The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Dahl claims that this is his 'first story' and that it tells the story of how he was shot down over the Libyan Desert. Both statements are incorrect. Dahl's first story was called 'Shot Down Over Libya' (published in the Saturday Evening Post, August 1, 1942) and it's nothing like this one. This version was written by Dahl almost thirty years later. Furthermore, Dahl didn't crash as a result of enemy fire, but rather because of poor directions and lack of fuel."
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1946 | Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying | Reynal and Hitchcock | Collection | ||
| 1973 |
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Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying | Penguin Books | Collection | |35 |
| 1977 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Jonathan Cape | Collection | ||
| 1977 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | ||
| 1978 | Het wonderlijk verhaal van Hendrik Meier en zes andere verhalen | De Fontein | Collection | 191 | |
| 1987 |
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A Second Roald Dahl Selection | Longman | Collection | 127 |
| October 1988 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Puffin / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | |
| September 1991 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | 222 | |
| September 1991 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | ||
| 1995 |
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Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 31 |
| 1995 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Puffin | Collection | |
| May 2000 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Puffin | Collection | |
| October 2006 |
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Collected Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 125 |
| August 2008 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Paw Prints | Collection | |
| 2010 |
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Over to You | Penguin Books | Collection | 39 |
| January 2010 |
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Over to You | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| September 2011 |
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Over to You | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| September 2013 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Puffin | Collection | |
| July 2016 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Penguin Audio | Collection | |201 |
| May 2017 |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More | Puffin | Collection |