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Yesterday was Beautiful (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

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Yesterday was Beautiful (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

By: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Yesterday was Beautiful by Roald Dahl, read by Juliet Stevenson.

In Yesterday was Beautiful, Roald Dahl tells of a bailed out pilot in Greece looking for assistance from the natives . . .

Yesterday was Beautiful is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, and is drawn from Dahl's own experiences during the Second World War.

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Dont know what it's not put in its original collection rather than trying to break them all up.

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