Book description
'They didn't think for one moment that they would find anything but a
burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton; and they were apparently
astounded whn they came upon my still-breathing body, lying in the
sand near by'
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, and many other
daring deeds, recreates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any he
wrote about in his fiction.
Roald Dahl was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He began to write
after injury sustained as a pilot in WW2. As well as his phenomenally
successful children's books, all of his highly acclaimed stories,
including TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, MY UNCLE OSWALD, and the
autobiographies BOY and GOING SOLO have been bestsellers and translated
all over the world. When he died in 1990, The Times described him as
'one of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation'.
