've finished all of the book in my siblings roald dahl collection! (other than the witches because I got traumatized by it in year 1 when we read it as a class and we had to stop reading cause I was so scared) I'm not really into ww2 books but this was different because it was an actual account! i really appreciated how he drew so much attention to the fact that there was so much pointless death and this was just such a causally sad book. i was originally planning on comparing it to boy (which is his autobiography but his life from like 5-18) but they're just so wildly different and I'm glad he separated them into different books. this was also odd to read as at the start of the book he was working for shell in africa and I didn't know how to feel about him morally there, anyway