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product_id: 1219908
title: "Going Solo"
brand: "roald dahl"
price: "₪56"
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reviews_count: 8
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# Going Solo

**Brand:** roald dahl
**Price:** ₪56
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Going Solo by roald dahl
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Going Solo

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Made my teenage son love reading again!!!
*by B***D on July 6, 2025*

My 10th grade son read this in our homeschool this year. I was trying to find engaging books to bring his love for reading back. Well, thank you Roald Dahl!! because he absolutely LOVED this book! Every day he would give me a narration and the stories the author tells are really funny and engaging! This book brought the joy of reading back into his life. I am so thankful! This year he also loved John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea. Seems like these classics authors were onto something that still resonates with the modern male spirit!!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Terriffic story-telling from a charming guy
*by T***T on December 18, 2008*

Another writer once told me that one of the most important elements to be found in a memoir is a "likeable" narrator. Roald Dahl is perhaps one of the MOST likeable of narrators. Modest to a fault and blessed with a very sly and subtle sense of humor, the story Dahl tells in GOING SOLO, his sequel to BOY, is perhaps one of the most readable memoirs of modern times. His story of the quick and almost informal training he received at a flying school in Africa shortly after Great Britain entered WWII, is hair-raising and nearly impossible to believe, except you do believe, because you trust this man. At six foot six inches tall, Dahl was physically quite unsuited to be a fighter pilot, noting that when seated in the various planes he flew, his knees were nearly under his chin and he had to hunch over to fit beneath the plane's canopy. But fly he did, even after surviving one horrific crash in the desert early on in his career as an RAF pilot. He sustained a very bad concussion (which was to come back to haunt him and finally "invalid" him out of service nearly two years later) and had his face bashed in. As he explained to his mother in a letter: "My nose was bashed in ... and the ear nose and throat man pulled my nose out of the back of my head and shaped it and now it looks just as before except that it's a little bent about ..." Dahl went on to fly many combat missions in North Africa and Greece, usually against vastly superior odds, but somehow he managed to survive until the middle of 1941, when the migraine headaches caused by the aforementioned crash made him unfit for further flying. Dahl's nearly laconic and completely unself-conscious manner of writing about the things he did - absolutely heroic things - made me think of Sam Hynes's WWII memoir of his missions in the Pacific theater. Both writers downplay the importance of their roles. They never speak of heroics or derring-do, only about the importance of their comrades, doing the jobs they were trained to do and trying their best to simply stay alive. This was an enormously satisfying, moving and often hilarious tale. After reading these two slim volumes of memoirs by Dahl, I do wish he had written another. I have ordered his slim collection of stories about WWII already. What a wonderful writer - and gentleman - Roald Dahl was. - Tim Bazzett, author of SOLDIER BOY and LOVE, WAR & POLIO

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Entertaining and informative.
*by Y***N on July 25, 2024*

Starting with a glimpse into the colonial life that still existed in Africa right up to WW2, this book clearly shows the almost haphazard manner in which Britain's colonies prepared for and fought Hitler's war. Always written with Dahl's characteristic wit and charm, his unflinching examination of his own naivete and youth will keep you amused from start to finish.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Going Solo
- Boy: Tales of Childhood
- Danny the Champion of the World

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