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In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa.

'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.'

In 1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF. His account of his experiences in Africa, crashing a plane in the Western Desert, rescue and recovery from his horrific injuries in Alexandria, flying a Hurricane as Greece fell to the Germans, and many other daring deeds, recreates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any he wrote about in his fiction.

'Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror' Evening Standard

'A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship' The New York Times Book Review

Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

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His account of life as a fighter pilot in the Western Desert and in Greece has the thrilling intensity and the occasional grotesqueness of his fiction—Sunday Times

Very nearly as grotesque as his fiction. The same compulsive blend of wide-eyed innocence and fascination with danger and horror—Evening Standard

A non-stop demonstration of expert raconteurship—The New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The second instalment about the incredible life of Roald Dahl. An astonishing autobiography brought to life by one of England's leading actors, Ian Holm. It will capture the attention and the imagination of adults and children alike. --This text refers to the cassette edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006UB7CAY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; UK ed. edition (2 February 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3720 KB
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The son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two, and it was while writing about his experiences during this time that he started his career as an author.

His fabulously popular children's books are read by children all over the world. Some of his better-known works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG.

He died in November 1990.

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Rakesh Nair

Lovely Read

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 7 December 2019

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I enjoyed every bit of it. Growing up, I have only seen documentaries of the world war k but this book allowed me to live it. Very subtle way of writing and really good enough to remain engrossed into it.

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Creaductive

I loved his naration

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 14 April 2017

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I loved his naration, and book is good for telling stories to kids about how the wars were fought... it could be real surprise when even adults read this novel and find they did not know many things..

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Saleena

Great

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 June 2020

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Love it

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himanshu mathur

Good experience

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 9 November 2019

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Excellent read. Recd in good condition

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 3 February 2019

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Not too much about aviation but still a very good read.

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Sridevi Alla

Nice book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 24 July 2019

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Good for the girls

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Roald Dahl's Autobiographical Account

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 27 September 2013

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"Going Solo" covers Roald Dahl's life as a grown up man. "Boy and Going Solo" covers his childhood and adult life. I bought the latter book replacing "Going Solo". The book is highly readable and interesting like all Roald Dahl's books.

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Gazal Hora

Non-sense book. All about war and other stupid stuff I am not interested in.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 September 2021

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Guys the book is not good. It is about Roald Dahl and he is describing how he had to go to war and all the other nonsense...
I was thinking it was another of his fantasy story. Going to return it 😔

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Anglian Traveller

Beautifully written, totally engaging evocation of a bygone age

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 May 2018

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The second part of Roald Dahl’s autobiography covers the years 1938-41 and, apart from a short final chapter when he returns home to wartime England, is set entirely in East Africa, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Palestine and fighting as an RAF pilot against the Luftwaffe during the German invasion of Greece in 1941.

Dahl has an engaging, conversational writing style which brings these recollections vividly to life for the reader. He recounts the eccentrics who in the 1930s kept the British Empire going in then far-off lands like Tanzania, which until the 1919 Versailles treaty had been German East Africa and in 1939 was still full of German ex-pats running farms and small businesses. In the days before cheap long-haul air travel, going to Tanzania from Europe was a major undertaking involving long journeys by sea through the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal and down the Red Sea to Mombasa via Aden in boiling tropical heat with no A/C and much physical discomfort. Dahl explains that years of privations in remote isolation had made many of his fellow passengers “potty as a pilchard” and moreover, they knew and admitted it.

There is a terrifying episode involving an aggressive black mamba, a separate incident with a green mamba which got into a house and had to be found and captured, and a remarkable story about a lion which carried off the cook’s wife in its jaws and subsequently initiated Dahl’s professional writing career. The young Dahl took long solo journeys across East Africa and later the Sinai by car on dirt roads and brings alive for us the breath-taking beauty of the natural landscape and wildlife.

Later chapters recount Dahl’s training as a fighter pilot in the RAF and subsequent period of action in a Hawker Hurricane in Greece when he came up against the Luftwaffe. The unpreparedness of the British High Command, the poor organization and planning which led to the Greece debacle are in stark contrast to the professionalism and thoroughness displayed by the service in the Battle of Britain, and it seemed to Dahl and his fellow young pilots that the main object of the exercise was to demonstrate support by Britain to the Greeks rather than actually do anything effective to resist the German invasion.

Dahl suffered a catastrophic crash in Libya in a Gladiator biplane which led to him spending months in hospital and having extensive surgery and this whole episode is also brought vividly to life in the author’s delightful conversational style; he really is a most gifted writer.

The book has only 210 pages and is a wonderful read. Highly recommended.

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Esa

Get it before the crazies cancel our boy Roald

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 September 2022

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Our favourite children's author Roald spitting straight facts and exposing the apartheid state. Haters gonna hate and before their hate takes hold get this book.

Free Palestine!

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PeeJay

Highly engaging and well written account of Dahl's WWII RAF experience

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 October 2016

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I chose a few eBooks to take on holiday, this was one I chose without any research other than the fact it had received such good reviews and it was only £1.99. Little did I realise that my holiday destination overlapped with some of those in the book. I went to Marmaris, Turkey and then a day trip to Rhodes. It was hot and as I started to read the book sat on the beach it was all the more easy to visualise the territories described in the book, they truly came to life. This gives a simple, first hand account of Dahl's experiences as a trainee fighter pilot and then active service, bringing to life the harsh reality of Hurricane aircraft, Messerschmitts and machine gun bullets. Dahl also relates to the beauty of the vast open spaces and deserted places. Vivid descriptions and the simple reality of colleagues not coming back from missions yet another reminder of the futility of war, as if another one were needed. It's quite a factual account of what happened and quite shocking when thinking of how the world is today. Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet in Dec 2015, and as a result Putin had banned Russians from holidaying in Turkey. We noted that numbers were down on last year when we were also there. A poignant reminder that air battles are as futile and relevant today as they were in Dahl's time. Excellent book, easy to read and an education of lesser known aspects of WWII.

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Cat

Everyone should read this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 22 April 2014

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If you know Roald Dahl only as an author of children's books, you should definitely read Boy, Tales of Childhood and this, Going Solo. Going Solo follows Dahl as he sets out as a 22 year old to live and work in Tanzania (then Tanganyika) for Shell. Whilst there, war is declared and Roald signs up for the RAF and begins flight training in Nairobi. His description of flying over the Serengeti in the early morning takes you back to a different time. One where Shell would pay your wages throughout the war to show their support, one where you had a 'boy' to do your ironing and washing. Once Dahl moves up to Libya and later, Greece, to join his new squadron, he captured the futility of war perfectly. Decisions made by people putting on a show put lives at risk and the sadness of losing a generation to war is captured beautifully but not by preaching or tugging at the heart strings. I told everyone I love that they must read this book as soon as I finished. You can be absorbed for a few hours and live another life, somewhere long ago and far away.

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Rob Martin

Masterful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 15 November 2016

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I think the only way this could not be given 5 stars is if one is utterly heartless! Dahl's style somehow translates incredibly well from childrens novels to this more adult memoir of his time as a pilot in the war. It is recalled with alarming clarity and is almost as fantasticly unbelievable than his ficton. The book really is suitable for all although just occasionally it ventures towards darker themes that are handled deftly and sympathetically.

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