"Happy Christmas Nastashya."
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. 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".)
ID:
b167
Title:
"Happy Christmas Nastashya."
Genre:
Story
Page Count:
3
Word Count:
ca. 1540
Publisher:
Royal Air Force Journal
Year of Publication:
1942
Topic:
Pilots
Russians
War
Document Type:
First-Person Narratives
Uncollected Stories