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William Earl Johns

  • Captain W. E. Johns
February 5, 1893 – June 21, 1968
William Earl Johns
Biggles Defends The Desert
Gimlet Comes Home
The bumper biggles book. Five adventures of the intrepid aviator
Biggles Defise the Swastika
Oscar and Sophie
Biggles of the Fighter Squadron
  • 2019
  • 2009

    Biggles' Second Biggles hunts for a wartime German submarine, the U-517, whose ruthless captain, Von Shonbeck, has escaped to the Antarctic with a horde of stolen gold bullion.; Biggles Breaks the Back in the Antarctic once again, Biggles tracks down a ship frozen in the pack ice with a hold full of treasure and does battle with a gang of desperate villains while attempting to recover the ship's cargo.; Biggles Gets His Biggles is tasked with the dangerous mission of finding and rescuing a group of important scientists who have been kidnapped and smuggled to a remote region of China.; Biggles Follows Biggles comes up against his arch enemy, Erich Von Stalhein, and teams up with Gimlet King's special forces unit behind enemy lines in Korea.

    Biggles' secret assignments
  • 2003
  • 2003

    The First World War is nearing its final stages and Biggles and his fellow flyers are struggling to maintain supremacy over the German air aces. In this game cunning is everything and Biggles hatches some outrageous and desperate schemes in order to say ahead - and alive. Fictional (based on fact) stories of experiment, trial, and error in the Royal Flying Corps, in World War I (The Great War): CONTENTS: Forward How 'Biggles' Was Born Glossary Of Terms Used The Professor The Joy Ride The Bridge Party The Bottle Party The Trap The Funk The Professor Comes Back The Great Arena The Dragon's Lair Biggles's Day Off Scotland For Ever!

    Biggles of the Fighter Squadron
  • 2003

    The Camels Are Coming

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
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    DEATH TRAP! Air combat is the order of the day in the final days of the First World War. Duelling high above the trenches, Biggles knows that he needs more than just flying skills to survive. The enemy is now using their own British aircraft, the Sopwith Camel, to lure them to their deaths. A devil to fly, invaluably fast in a dogfight, this machine commands fierce loyalty from its pilots. Will luck and initiative be enough to keep Biggles alive? Join cult hero and flying ace, Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth on another action packed adventure!

    The Camels Are Coming
  • 1986

    Biggles Learns to Fly

    • 256 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
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    Sep 1916 Norfolk Flying School trains dogged delicate-looking Bigglesworth 16. He ships to France on less than 15 air hours. Though gunner Mark saves his first flight, hot dogfights force him to learn or die. Downed twice over Lines, he evades and chases Boche in air and on land, plans new tactics against Hun circuses, drops French spy.

    Biggles Learns to Fly