by W E Johns
Chapter 6
*1 Slang: the battle is about to begin.
Chapter 7
*1 German: heavens!
*2 In taking off a pilot chooses a mark, usually on the boundary of the aerodrome, to prevent swerving.
*3 A landing where, instead of the aircraft gliding down to land, it flops down from a height of a few feet after losing flying speed.
Chapter 9
*1 Slang: parachute.
*2 Anti-aircraft fire.
*3 Officer appointed to assist the Commanding Officer with correspondence and paperwork.
Chapter 10
*1 Sound of a bursting bomb.
Chapter 11
*1 British Rolls-Royce engines widely used in World War II fighter and bomber aircraft.
*2 Royal Navy carrier-borne dive bombers.
*3 Underwater mines detonated when the hull of a passing vessel causes a shift of the magnetic field at the mine.
Chapter 13
*1 German twin engine fighter, often abbreviated to ME110.
Chapter 15
*1 Changing the rhythm and sound of the engine by closing and opening the throttle rapidly.
Red Fox would like to express their grateful thanks for help given in the preparation of these editions to Jennifer Schofield, author of By Jove, Biggles, Linda Shaughnessy of A. P Watt Ltd and especially to the late John Trendler.
About the Author
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.
BIGGLES BOOKS
FIRST WORLD WAR:
Biggles Learns to Fly
Biggles Flies East
Biggles the Camels are Coming
Biggles of the Fighter Squadron
SECOND WORLD WAR:
Biggles Defies the Swastika
Biggles Delivers the Goods
Biggles Defends the Desert
Biggles Fails to Return
BIGGLES DEFIES THE SWASTIKA
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