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Someone Like You

Roald Dahl

First published 1946
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Two bomber pilots talking about civilians they've killed and how it can make you a bit crazy to brood about whether you would have hit someone if you'd been a little to the left or right or a little earlier or later.

First published in the November 1945 issue of Town and Country

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 |173
November 1989 Cover Someone Like You: and Other Short Stories Le Livre de Poche Collection 13
September 1991 The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl Michael Joseph Omnibus 317
October 2006 Cover Collected Stories Alfred A. Knopf Collection 76
2010 Cover Over to You Penguin Books Collection 151
January 2010 Cover Over to You Penguin Books Collection
September 2011 Cover Over to You Penguin Books Collection