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- ID
- b167
- Title
- "Happy Christmas Nastashya."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 3
- Word Count
- 1540
- Publisher
- Royal Air Force Journal
- Publication Year
- 1942
- Document Types
- First-Person Narratives
- Uncollected Antemortem
- Topics
- Pilots, War, Russians
A story similar in style to "Flying Officer X" tales but published only in a military journal with the byline "Flight Lieutenant H.E. Bates" and situated not in England among R.A.F. pilots but in Russia among partisan soldiers.
The narrator converses with a young girl soldier before she and her fellow soldiers leave on an operation.
Published in:
- The Royal Air Force Journal (London, No. 2, December 1942, pp. 20-22)
- London Calling (edited by Storm Jameson, 1942, with the title "Good Luck, Nastashya")
- The Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (Bloomsbury ebook, 2018)
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