Biggles Story Collection by W E Johns
This book contains: "Biggles in France" - Biggles discovers that air combat is becoming more sophisticated; "Biggles Defends the Desert" - fighting the arid conditions of the desert is a desperate business; and "Biggles: Foreign Legionnaire" - Biggles and Ginger enlist in the French Foreign Legion.
CAPTAIN W. E. JOHNS was born in Hertfordshire in 1893. He flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and made a daring escape from a German prison camp in 1918. Between the wars he edited Flying and Popular Flying and became a writer for the Ministry of Defence. The first Biggles story, Biggles the Camels are Coming was published in 1932, and W. E. Johns went on to write a staggering 102 Biggles titles before his death in 1968.
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ISBN 13 | 9780099401544 |
ISBN 10 | 0099401541 |
Title | Biggles Story Collection |
Author | W E Johns |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
Year published | 1999-10-07 |
Number of pages | 464 |
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