__How Sleep the Brave: Complete Stories of Flying Officer ‘X’ – H.E. Bates

First published under the pseudonym of 'Flying Officer X,' H.E. Bates’s stories of the heroic exploits of British bomber crews during the Second World War created a sensation when they first appeared in 1942, selling over two million copies all over the world. Bates lived among the painfully young pilots and recorded their lives, and those of their loved ones, with an emotional attention that deeply moved the generation that lived through the war, and an intensity that reverberates down the decades.