H.E. Bates Companion

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943 (August). Dedication: "To John Pudney." This second collection of "Flying Officer X" pieces is in two parts, the first containing the novella-length title-piece, the second containing five short stories; all were included (along with the contents of the first "Flying Officer X" collection, The Greatest People in the World and Other 1942), in the 1944 Something in the Air; only four (excluding the title-piece and "Croix De Guerre") were included in the 1943 American collection There's Something in the Air.

Reviews:
Times Literary Supplement (September 4, 1943, p. 425, R.D. Charques, attached)

Contains: How Sleep the Brave; The Beginning of Things; The Disinherited; Croix De Guerre; Yours is the Earth; There's Something in the Air.