Biggles: The Authorized Biography Pearson John
Biggles: The Authorized Biography Pearson John For over fifty years James Biggles Worth, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C., has flown the skies. A dashed fine chap, certainly. The mythical ace to end all flying…
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Biggles: The Authorized Biography Pearson John
For over fifty years James Biggles Worth, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C., has flown the skies. A dashed fine chap, certainly. The mythical ace to end all flying aces, the fearless pilot of everything from Sop with Camels to the earliest jets, he emerged with glory from devilish scrapes all over the world.Yet until now Biggles has often been seen as a storybook caricature.
Here, for the first time, is an insight into the 'real' man who made these adventures possible. But not the extraordinary man he really was. John Pearson has unravelled the missing strands in Biggles' life; delving vigorously into subjects that were once taboo.Why did Biggles never marry?
What was the truth about his tragic first love? And what were Biggles' real regrets and frustrations as he tried to come to terms with a rapidly developing world in peacetime? The truth - so long hidden behind a stiff upper