Going Solo

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Once in Tanganyika he has some alarming snake and lion encounters – more of a highlight for me than his lucky escapes during his outrageously outnumbered war pilot experience in Greece, though these are written with just as much élan. except for the war scenes that were boring, that was actually a good memoir, I don't know if I read this book because of dahl or because of his mother? One of my happiest moments was hearing my daughter’s fits of giggles the first time I read her The BFG. Later, he witnesses a face-to-face showdown between a native man and one of the world’s most dangerous snakes, the black mamba. Description: To celebrate the centenary year of his birth, a full dramatization of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical overseas adventure.

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He was never able to go home, and for three years his In Africa his closest relationship is with his manservant Mdisho, whose boyishness (he was 19) is contrasted with the stuffiness of the British. However, in 1939, it was clear that war was quickly approaching, so Dahl joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) to fight the Nazi war machine.

Greek observers on the ground as well as our own people on the airstrip saw the five Hurricanes going down in smoke, but they also saw something else.

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They did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton, and they were astounded when they came upon my still-breathing body lying in the sand nearby.At the door of the Ops Room three or four other pilots were standing around and I noticed that each one of them was as wet as I was. If these incidents feel as if they’ve sprung from Dahl’s imagination it’s probably because they had.

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Although he passed away in 1990, his popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels, including James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, delight an ever-growing legion of fans. As a child, I'd devoured all of Dahl's books including this one, but its depth and underlying horror hadn't really registered with me as a nine-year-old. He was among the last Allied pilots to withdraw from Greece during the German invasion, taking part in the air for the Battle of Athens on 20 April 1941. The inhabitants of Athens, so it seemed, were getting jumpy and it was assumed that the sight of us all flying overhead would boost their morale. His flying lessons and time as a fighter pilot, in the doomed and ill-advised British effort to defend Greece.Dahl mentions how lucky he felt to have witnessed the later days of colonial Britain and the people that made the empire.