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aantal korte verhalen in een bundel, Heb liever een lang goed verhaal dankleine,

Deze verhalen spelen zich allemaal af tijdens de start van het Biggles squadron hete squadron aan het begin van de tweede wereld oorlog.


Pas onlangs realiseerde ik me dat het squadron nummer ook het duivelsgetal is, What an absolute joy to discover that Biggles served his country not only in the First World War, but also in the Second, The realSquadron, a Royal Canadian Air Force Air Observation Post, was formed in the last year of that War,

In these stories, Camels and S, E.s of the earlier military service are replaced by Spitfires commanded by Biggles,as a Fighter Squadron and Hurricanes commanded bySquadron Leader A, R. Wilkinson. Algy, Ginger, and Toddy ofare Biggles first line of support, with a further line of the most wonderful hardened characters specially selected forby Air Commodore Raymond.


W. E. Johns does successfully brings an outandout thoroughly WWfeel to the plots and events described in these stories with Biggles wisely adapting, not losing, the skills of strategy learnt during WW.
At first I found the spoken references to archie, Huns, and other WWterminology anachronistic that is before it dawned on me that under pressure every generation tends to use language, especially slang, as it was in their youth.
However, I didnt have much time to dwell on such thoughts, The fast pace of this book saw to that, The authors description of battle in the air is as ever technically and excitedly utterly superb on several occasions I realised I was holding my breath as I read, on tenterhooks as to what

the outcome of an airfight would be! These are REAL men.
I fell in love with them all!
Biggles se stává velitelem letky stihačů, kteří jsou vynikajícími piloty, ale na zemi se chovají velmi výstředně.
Spitfire Parade: Bigglesby F, BergeseThis is a dozen connected short stories that follows the formation of thesquadron, with Biggles as the squadron leader and with pilots too unruly to be anywhere else as members.


In some ways it feels like some of the WWI stories have just been transplanted to WWII and in one case it is very similar the pig one compare to a flower one from WWI.


Still, easy read, lots of action, O Biggles original foi um personagem do escritor W, E. Johnson que encantou gerações de jovens ingleses com as suas aventuras nos céus da I e II guerra mundial em noventa e seis livros.
Este Spitfire Parade adapta o romance do mesmo nome e centrase nas aventuras de um esquadrão muito especial de pilotos de aeronaves Spitfire.
Constituído por descontentes, excêntricos e inadaptados vão dando sob a liderança de Biggles provas de coragem e destreza em combate, É uma leitura leve, encadeamento de pequenas histórias cheias de aventura que funcionam como boa desculpa para empolgantes vinhetas que retratam aeronaves icónicas em voo e combate que se distinguem pelo uso inventivo de perspectiva e pontos de vista.
São estas sequências que dão interesse a um livro essencialmente banal, for tears must find no place in the eyes of those who hunt the skies,

I was fascinated to see that Bertie has a bit of steel in him, I know that he seems like such a joke in later books, but occasionally reveals his value,
I really liked seeing the small beginnings of the magnificentsquadron,
They're all such strong characters from the oversensitive Carrington to the cocky O'Hara,
Biggles seems more younger in this one because he's just a war pilot no spying or desperate situations or having to use much of his detective brain.
Though his “favours” for Air Commodore Raymond are sort of in a more humorous light now, He advises his colleagues, in reference to his first adventure involving a pigeon,

Take my tip and never volunteer for anything, he said sadly, I did once, in a rash moment, and Ive been doing it ever since,

Some of my favourite chapters were The Record Breakers and The Coward, I like the Record Breakers because I love how Ginger expects Biggles to hold up the reputation of the squadron and how Wilks feels so entitled to his shooting down German planes.
I like the Coward because it's cutesy and a good spinoff Percy the goldfish in The Camels are Coming,

Dumb queried Tex,
Yes it the pig cant talk,
Yeah, Id already got that figgered out, said Tex slowly,
Well, therefore its dumb,
I still dont get it, Do some of your English pigs talk
Of course not,
hilariously funny, introducing the final member of the quartet, lord Bertie Lissie A series of looselyconnected short stories rather than a novel but a good introduction to characters we come to know and love in later books.
Bertie, in particular, benefits from the author's attention to characterisation but all of theSquadron gang are vividly presented, There's lots of humour and some great combat writing, 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 onOctober, 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 ofhe was apprenticed to a county municipal surveyor where he remained for four years and then inhe became a sanitary inspector in Swaffham, Norfolk.
Soon after taking up this appointment, his father died 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 onOctober, 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 ofhe was apprenticed to a county municipal surveyor where he remained for four years and then inhe became a sanitary inspector in Swaffham, Norfolk.
Soon after taking up this appointment, his father died of tuberculosis at the age of, OnOctoberhe married Maude Penelope Hunt, 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, With war looming he joined the Territorial Army as a Private in the King's Own Royal Regiment Norfolk Yeomanry, a cavalry regiment, In Augusthis regiment was mobilised and was in training and on home defence duties until Septemberwhen 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.
He contracted malaria and whilst in hospital he put in for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps and onSeptember, he was given a temporary commission as a Second Lieutenant and posted back to England to learn to fly, which he did at No.
School of Aeronautics at Reading, where he was taught by a Captain Ashton, He was posted to No,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, sitelink.