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Death of an Old Old Man

Roald Dahl

First published 1946
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A World War II R.A.F. story: a dogfight and then a life-and-death struggle between two pilots. The first person point-of-view continues beyond the death of the narrator.

First published in the Ladies Home Journal, September 1945.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1946 Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying Reynal and Hitchcock Collection
1973 Cover Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying Penguin Books Collection |1
September 1991 The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl Michael Joseph Omnibus 199
October 2006 Cover Collected Stories Alfred A. Knopf Collection 84
2010 Cover Over to You Penguin Books Collection 11
January 2010 Cover Over to You Penguin Books Collection
September 2011 Cover Over to You Penguin Books Collection