Going Solo

Going Solo

Roald Dahl

Going solo is a great book and I really liked it. The book had a slow start then it took off, I would recommend this book to other people. In the beginning Roald was a man in Africa as a petroleum expert, and was drafted by the U.S. Army and was in charge of bringing back the Germans trying to get out of the country. Roald stopped them and brought them back to holding camps. He then enlisted in the U.S. Air force and went through six months of gruesome flight training. When finished he was sent to Afghanistan to help fly weapons over to a secret base. He got the coordinates and flew to where the base was but it wasn’t there so he crash landed. He crawled out of the plane and didn’t burn to death. Three days later some men came to retrieve the plane and skeleton of the pilot but they found the badly burnt, still breathing and bloodied body of Roald Dahl. He spent the next seven months recovering from a broken skull, broken bones, loss of sight, and many other severe injuries. Once fully recovered he flew a new plane to Greece to hold off the incoming Grecian air force. They were outnumbered, fourteen to about one thousand. No one thought they would hold them off, and they were right Roald and all of his flight team were forced to retreat to an old olive grove. They had to cover there planes in corn stalks, during the flight over Roald passed out for a short time, and he decided to talk to the field doctor. His head injuries from the year before were turning serious and he was going home.