Books with author Capt W. E. Johns

Biggles becomes involved in four undercover operations in this third bumper omnibus edition of his classic adventure stories that take him from the icy wastes of Antarctica to war-torn Korea. In Biggles’ Second Case, Biggles hunts for a wartime German submarine, the U-517, whose ruthless captain, Von Shonbeck, has escaped to the Antarctic with a horde of stolen gold bullion. In Biggles Breaks the Silence, Biggles is back in the Antarctic once again, tracking down a ship frozen in the pack ice with a hold full of treasure, and doing battle with a gang of desperate villains while attempting to recover the ship’s cargo. In Biggles Gets His Men, Biggles is tasked with the dangerous mission of finding and rescuing a group of important scientists who have been kidnapped and smuggled to a remote region of China. Finally, in Biggles Follows On, Biggles comes up against his arch enemy, Erich Von Stalhein, and teams up with Gimlet King’s special forces unit behind enemy lines in China.

Biggles is back! Caught up in the German invasion of Norway in the early days of the Second World War, Biggles has to use all his cunning to stay one step ahead of the enemy. With his old opponent Von Stalheim hot on his trail, it's going to take a daring act to avoid the horror of the Nazi firing squad. Deep in the jungle heartland of Japanese occupied Malaya, Biggles and his team operate a secret commando base. It's deadly, dangerous work, risking enemy capture and Biggles is fighting to bring all his men out alive. With a dangerous mission ahead and the threat of being shot down in the waterless wasteland of the African plains, Biggles is in the desert, defending the vital air-route from the West coast of Africa to the Middle East. When a number of planes fail to arrive at their destinations, Biggles is there to find out why -- and stop it happening again. Biggles is missing in action. Last seen lying shot and wounded, surrounded by the enemy, his chances are looking bleak. But Algy, Ginger and Bertie will not give up until they find him, dead or alive, and if this means going behind enemy lines, then that's what they will do.

In the hostile skies over First World War France, young airmen die in their thousands as they battle it out in their flimsy crafts. Biggles - aged seventeen and with less than fiteen hours flying experience - is sent to tackle the enemy in what often seem suicidal missions. In a theatre of war where instinct and lightning-fast reactions are the most important assets a man can possess, Biggles must learn to be a real flier quickly - or die....