Biggles Adventure Double: Biggles Learns to Fly & Biggles the Camels are Coming

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<p>BIGGLES LEARNS TO FLY</p><p>Age just seventeen and with almost no flying experience, James Bigglesworth is sent to tackle the enemy in the hostile skies over First World War France. In a drama of war, where instinct and fast reactions are everything, Biggles must learn to be a real fighter pilot, or diebut does he have what it takes?</p> <p>BIGGLES THE CAMELS ARE COMING</p><p>Fighting high above the trenches of First World War France Biggles knows he needs more than just flying skills to survive against the Sopwith Camel a demon to fly, but incredibly fast in a dogfight, it commands fierce loyalty from its pilot. Will Biggles luck and initiative be enough to keep him alive?</p>

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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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