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Biggles Scores a Bull

(Biggles #85)

W.E. Johns

3.33 · Rating details · 15 ratings · 2 reviews

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Published 1952 by Hodder & Stoughton

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Nov 05, 2009 Manny rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I can't remember anything about it, except that it was the first Biggles book I read. It must have been good, because after that I read virtually the whole series.

Something about helicopters and kidnapping prize bulls? I do recall being a little surprised later on to find that Biggles had served in WW I. Bull came out in 1967, shortly before I read it, so he would have been about 70. You know, nearly as old as James Bond...
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Jun 14, 2016 Edwin rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Wat valt er te zeggen van dit boek. Het was leuk om te lezen, maar had weinig te doen met de luchtvaartpolitie, anders dan dat er een paar keer een helikopter in werd gebruikt.

Bertie wordt buiten westen geslagen, en Ginger wordt beschoten met een gif-pijltje, maar komt er goed van af. Gelukkig vinden Biggles en inspecteur Gaskin Ginger op tijd en weten hem voldoende op te knappen zodat hij hen alles kan vertellen wat hij weet. Biggles en Gaskin weten de dieven te stoppen, maar de hoofddader kie ...more

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Invariably known as Captain W.E. Johns, William Earl Johns was born in Bengeo, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Richard Eastman Johns, a tailor, and Elizabeth Johns (née Earl), the daughter of a master butcher. He had a younger brother, Russell Ernest Johns, who was born on 24 October 1895.

He went to Hertford Grammar School where he was no great scholar but he did develop into a crack sh Invariably known as Captain W.E. Johns, William Earl Johns was born in Bengeo, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Richard Eastman Johns, a tailor, and Elizabeth Johns (née Earl), the daughter of a master butcher. He had a younger brother, Russell Ernest Johns, who was born on 24 October 1895.

He went to Hertford Grammar School where he was no great scholar but he did develop into a crack shot with a rifle. This fired his early ambition to be a soldier. He also attended evening classes at the local art school.

In the summer of 1907 he was apprenticed to a county municipal surveyor where he remained for four years and then in 1912 he became a sanitary inspector in Swaffham, Norfolk. Soon after taking up this appointment, his father died of tuberculosis at the age of 47.

On 6 October 1914 he married Maude Penelope Hunt (1882–1961), the daughter of the Reverend John Hunt, the vicar at Little Dunham in Norfolk. The couple had one son, William Earl Carmichael Johns, who was born in March 1916.

With war looming he joined the Territorial Army as a Private in the King's Own Royal Regiment (Norfolk Yeomanry), a cavalry regiment. In August 1914 his regiment was mobilised and was in training and on home defence duties until September 1915 when they received embarkation orders for duty overseas.

He fought at Gallipoli and in the Suez Canal area and, after moving to the Machine gun Corps, he took part in the spring offensive in Salonika in April 1917. He contracted malaria and whilst in hospital he put in for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps and on 26 September 1917, he was given a temporary commission as a Second Lieutenant and posted back to England to learn to fly, which he did at No. 1 School of Aeronautics at Reading, where he was taught by a Captain Ashton.

He was posted to No. 25 Flying Training School at Thetford where he had a charmed existence, once writing off three planes in three days. He moved to Yorkshire and was then posted to France and while on a bombing raid to Mannheim his plane was shot down and he was wounded. Captured by the Germans, he later escaped before being reincarcerated where he remained until the war ended. ...more