Book description
'It is my opinion that Biggles is dead,' asserted the Air Commodore.
'I had already sensed that, Sir, but I don't believe it,' retorted Algy.
When Biggles undertakes a lone mission to rescue an Italian princess
from Mussolini's Italy he doesn't know he's walking into a trap.
Against all the odds he gets the princess to the aircraft ready to fly
them back to safety, but he never reaches the plane. He's last seen
wounded and surrounded by the enemy, but Algy, Ginger and Bertie
refuse to accept that he's dead until they see the evidence themselves.
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.
