Roald Dahl
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"In Africa he sees a snake-man capture a green mamba and our hero, more or less single-handed, rounds up a convoy of Germans leaving Dar-es-Salaam at
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the beginning of the war. Then he becomes a fighter pilot, crashing a plane in the no man's land in the Western Desert and then doing yeoman service in Hurricanes during the hopeless last days in Greece before he is grounded. A thrill a page and a thoroughly jolly read." -Daily Telegraph
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