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- ID
- b175
- Title
- "How Sleep the Brave."
- Genre
- Novella
- Page Count
- 51
- Word Count
- 15800
- Publication Year
- 1943
- Document Types
- First-Person Narratives
- Flying Officer X Byline
- Topics
- Pilots, War
The longest of Bates's "Flying Officer X" stories, in eleven numbered sections, contains vivid descriptions and action as a plane is downed in battle, its crew reaches land after sixty hours in a dinghy, and the men reflect on their lives and losses.
Two poems bear the same title, one by the eighteenth-century poet William Collins, the other written by the Kentish poet Walter de la Mare in 1916 (and this the more likely source of Bates's title).
Published in:
- How Sleep the Brave and Other Stories (1943)
- Something in the Air (1944)
- The Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (1952)
- Great Flying Stories (1991)
- The Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (Bloomsbury ebook, 2018)
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