newsWelcome 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.
review top 10
| Biggles and Co |  |   (9) |
| Sergeant Bigglesworth CID |  | (9) |
| The Camels are Coming |  | (9) |
| The Black Peril |  |  (8.9) |
| Biggles Secret Agent |  | (8.8) |
| Biggles Flies East |  |  (8.7) |
| Biggles Foreign Legionnaire |  | (8.7) |
| Biggles Takes Charge |  | (8.6) |
| Biggles of the Camel Squadron |  | (8.6) |
| Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter |  | (8.6) |
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From bertie (May 2009):
The second world war has just broken out, and Biggles, Ginger and Algy are sent to Bergen Ait, in the Baltic Sea, to man a special squadron. The brass, seeing what was on the cards, had purchased the island and fitted it out with an arsenal of weapons to harass the Germans. A fast paced, if rather ridiculous, story that certainly rattles along in Boys Own fashion. The squadron in what seems like a day bombs a dump, sinks a U-boat, steals a Dornier, destroys a railway tunnel, sinks a German liner, annoys von Stalhein.... from there things go pear shaped as the chaps are scattered all over the Baltic and they run out of machines. The running gag with Briny and his stories is amusing, and some of the archaic first world war references are quaint (archie, Boche, etc). Published in 1940, just when the Phoney War (a.k.a. Sitzkrieg) was in full swing, it's not bad at all.
Can you guess what title is being described?
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Ace of Aces
Taken a while (thank you eBay saved searches) but finally got hold of Ace of Aces, the WW1 flying game that uses picture books to really put you in the cockpit as the foe flies circles around you.
And wonders of wonders, after years of drought, the same chap put three versions up for sale and I luckily got them all. Sweet.
Big Box of Biggles
How sad is it that I'm seriously contemplating buying the Big Box of Biggles, just for the box. I already have all the books that are delivered in the box!
What happened to Ginger?
Just editing a text version of Biggles Sweeps the Desert to produce an ePUB. And one of the chapters is titled "What happened to Ginger?".
That's such a classic chapter title I wonder how many other books have exactly the same at some point? I reckon half of them!
Bonus points if you recognise which book the Ginger illustration comes from.