Welcome to Yet Another Biggles Site (YABS)
Yet Another Biggles Site (YABS to its friends) is one of many sites for James Bigglesworth, the intrepid pilot hero of Capt W.E. Johns.
YABS' aims are:
- to allow readers to review, rate, and thus rank, all the Biggles adventures
- to provide a complete reference for all characters and craft mentioned in those adventures
- to provide an accessible and modifiable bibliography
As a result, this is most definitely a reader's site. And that's because I'm sure, like me, most of us are readers first, collectors second.
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From jason (Feb 2008):
a nice tale this one. Johns abandons the WW1 style of Spitfire Parade (thank god!!) and reverts to the special mission format. except where it used to just be Biggles, Algy and Ginger (with Smyth thrown in occassionally), it's now the whole squadron. the new layout works well, with Johns able to stick to his strengths of tale and locations, and most of the subsequent WW2 stories follow this pattern. In this one, the squadron is dispatched to the southern reaches of the sahara to take on a German Jadgstaffel that has been intercepting Allied trans-africa flights. It is a setting that provides the captain with plenty of grandeur to work with. His description of Ginger slipping into thirst-induced delusiuons is brilliant, the story moves along at a fair clip and is by-and-large highly believable. The generally honourable nature of the real african campaign is reflected in the interraction between the two squadrons, and both sides have as many problems with the elements as they do with the enemy. like "swastika" and "Sees it through" a good tale woven around real events.
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recent site news
Aug
24
Just uploaded a neat little film snippet taken (fair use - honest) from a movie I have on the Red Baron. Shows some great archival footage of dogfights, pilots and the baron himself.
All I can say is, he looks so young!