Before Roald Dahl became a writer after he was a fighter pilot and a spy during World War 2. Roald wrote a book about what war was like for him. The book is called "going solo". Roald writes about his experiences as a fighter pilot. He makes the story humorous and funny. This book is really good and explaines that war was not fun and games. Many people got tricked into going into war and lost there lives. Roald explanies that many of his friends that he trained with died during war. he had some bad experiences like the time he crashed and he had to be resuced. Roald flied a plane called the tigermoth, when he crashed his plane got destroyed and he got a new plane called the Hurricane.