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Learn morePenguin 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.
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.