Alexis's review
Boy / Going Solo
by Roald Dahl
Alexis's review
Boy / Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Alexis's review
rating:
A friend suggested I read this book when I developed an interest in learning more about the RAF during WWII. I had first become interested through watching the british tv series, Foyle's War which is set during WWII and involves an RAF pilot as the son of the title character.
I really adored this book, not because I learned a great deal about the RAF, but because it is Roald Dahl at his most honest, funny, endearing and dark all at once.
I was shocked to learn from this book how little the actual men fighting in WWII knew of what what happening to Jews all over Europe. For Dahl and those he fought with, the war had nothing to do with the plight of the Jewish people. The Holocaust was not even a word he mentions. We have a single page in which Dahl encounters a displaced German Jew who has settled in Palestine with orphaned children. Dahl is forthright in his ignorance and inability to understand anything the man is talking about which Dahl explains is due to his complete l...more
I really adored this book, not because I learned a great deal about the RAF, but because it is Roald Dahl at his most honest, funny, endearing and dark all at once.
I was shocked to learn from this book how little the actual men fighting in WWII knew of what what happening to Jews all over Europe. For Dahl and those he fought with, the war had nothing to do with the plight of the Jewish people. The Holocaust was not even a word he mentions. We have a single page in which Dahl encounters a displaced German Jew who has settled in Palestine with orphaned children. Dahl is forthright in his ignorance and inability to understand anything the man is talking about which Dahl explains is due to his complete l...more
