| Fly West | |
| Author: | Ivan Southall |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Autobiography |
| Publisher: | Angus and Robertson |
| Release Date: | 1974 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 175 pp |
| Isbn: | 0207130027 |
Fly West (1974) is an autobiography written for children by Australian author Ivan Southall.[1] It won the in 1976.[2]
The book tells the story of Ivan Southall's time as a captain of a Sunderland flying boat during World War II.
A reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted: "Fly West is not for those who like to find vicarious excitement in the reading of war books. Ivan Southall gives the truth of the times, and melancholy tinges his account as he writes of men who died, of men who survived to find that evil has triumphed more often than right."[3]