Biggles Learns to Fly
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher:
Published: 2024-10-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781835980132
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Biggles Learns to Fly
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2024-05-27
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1835980147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiggles takes the controls for the first time! Fifteen hours. That is all the flying training seventeen-year-old Biggles receives before gaining his ‘wings’ and being sent to carry out missions over the battlefields of France. Biggles quickly gets to grips with his new plane, but is completely inexperienced in aerial combat. He must rely on the more knowledgeable men in his Flight if he is to survive the German attacks. But it isn’t long before he finds himself in the gun sights of von Richthofen, the dreaded Red Baron himself... Does Biggles have what it takes to be a real fighter pilot? Get ready for all the thrills and spills of Biggles’ origin story as he gets his first taste of combat.
Biggles Learns to Fly
Author: William Earl Johns
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780340388426
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Author: W.E. Johns
Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 1992-10-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780099134619
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Author: William Earl Johns
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Soldier to Storyteller
Author: Kathleen Broome Williams
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2024-10-09
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1476652074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the best-known and most popular children's stories of the 20th and early 21st century were written by veterans of World War I and World War II. These include works by such writers as A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others. Although they had experienced war, most of the veterans did not overtly write about it. The seeming paradox of warriors who went through searing combat and then wrote books for children has not been addressed collectively before now. The essays in this book explore what motivated these veterans to write for children, what they wrote, and how their writing was influenced by the wars they lived through. It examines how their combat experience can be traced in their writing, however subtly, whether it was stories about a bear and his piglet companion, a World War I flying ace, or a flying car. Their reactions to war, as reflected in their writing, yield important lessons about the complicated legacy of the 20th century's two great conflicts and their long-lasting impact--through children--on society at large.
Biggles Flies Again
Author: Capt. W.E. Johns
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 147947908X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiggles Flies Again< is a collection of short stories, most of which first appeared in Popular Flying after 1933. The stories take place in the years between the first and second World War, when Biggles and Algy traveled around the world in search of work and adventure. Biggles Flies Again introduces Vickers Vandal Amphibian, which appears in many of the interwar novels.
Biggles Flies East
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2024-07-22
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1835980082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiggles turns double agent! Biggles is in London on leave from the Front when he is approached by a stranger who greets him as ‘Captain Brunow’. Curious, Biggles plays along with the mistaken identity, and is quickly offered the chance to become a spy for the Germans! Reporting the encounter to Air Staff Intelligence, Biggles is encouraged to seize the opportunity and find out all he can about a German known only as El Shereef, operating somewhere in Palestine... Biggles soon finds himself in Zabala, a German aerodrome in Palestine, reporting to Count von Fauborg of the German Secret Service and his chief of staff, one Erich von Stalhein – the first appearance of Biggles’ greatest nemesis. As Biggles draws closer to unmasking El Shereef, at all times he must ensure his own identity is never revealed, or he will be shot as a spy. A tense, thrilling Biggles espionage adventure in the deserts of the Levant.
Biggles Flies West
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2024-09-23
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 183598021X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiggles searches for pirate gold! Out on a walk in London with Algy and Ginger, Biggles bumps into a young lad called Dick Denver. A chance encounter perhaps, but there isn’t time for formal introductions. Dick knows the location of a secret treasure trove, hidden in an old pirate ship in the Caribbean. His father’s final letter contained a map detailing how to find it, and a single gold doubloon as proof. He needs Biggles’ help to find the rest. Biggles, Dick and the gang swiftly set off in search of the long-lost pirate hoard. But they aren’t the only ones after it... Buckle up for another rip-roaring adventure, as Biggles takes off for the Caribbean Sea!
Biggles and the Rescue Flight
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2024-11-25
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1804368660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiggles helps two friends search for a missing brother, shot down behind the Lines... Devastating news reaches sixteen-year-old Peter ‘Thirty’ Fortymore at his school in England: his older brother, Nigel, is missing in action, believed dead, after being shot down over the Western Front. Thirty is adamant that his brother may still be alive, and is determined to find him. With help of his best friend, Rip, Thirty runs away from school with a ridiculous and daring plan to get to France. The two boys successfully pose as officers in the R.F.C. and steal two Sopwith Camels to cross the Channel. A tumultuous journey lands them in hot water, only to be saved by a pilot from 266 Squadron, a certain James Bigglesworth. Far from home and in dangerous territory, Thirty and Rip have a daunting mission ahead. Will Biggles rumble the boys’ wild plans? Can they rescue Nigel before it’s too late? Join cult hero and flying ace Squadron Leader Biggles on another action-packed adventure!
