Biggles Learns to Fly (Knight Books) - Softcover
He tilted the machine on to its side, holding up his nose with the throttle, and commenced to slip wing-tip first towards the ground. Whether he was over British or German territory he neither knew nor cared; he had to get on to the ground or be burnt alive.
This is the story of the very beginning - of the Air Service and of Biggles. It's the First World War and Biggles is just 17; the planes are primitive; combat tactics are non-existent; and pilots and their gunners communicate by hand signals and have no contact with the ground. This is where Biggles learns his craft and finds he has a certain aptitude for flying in battle...
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- PublisherKnight
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0340388420
- ISBN 13 9780340388426
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. some shelf wear, some minor wear to edges and corners, a good tight clean copy. the first adventure about Biggles, how he joined the flying corps at seventeen and how he faced the horrors of war, front cover shows view from the film of the same name. Book. Seller Inventory # 624035
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light cover creases and small rub to base of spine, large Biggles the Movie sticker to front cover. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names inside. ; The Biggles Series; B&W Illustrations; 160 pages; The first Biggles story chronologically. Young James Bigglesworth at the age of seventeen with virtually no flying experience is off to face the Hun, and above the Western Front will have to learn quickly to be a real flier - or die. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 16240
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