Going solo

Continuing the story begun in "Boy", this is the second part of Roald Dahl's autobiography, in which he creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any you will find in his fiction.

In Africa, our hero, more or less single-handed, rounds up a convoy of Germans leaving Dar-es-Salaam at the beginning of World War II.

Then he becomes a fighter puilot, crashing a plane in no man's land in the Western Desert, and then does yeoman service in Hurricanes during the last hopeless days in Greece before he is grounded.