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In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from...
Changing the Playbook: How Power, Profit, and Politics Transformed College Sports
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In Changing the Playbook , Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding...
It's No Good
Kirill Medvedev, Keith Gessen and Mark Krotov
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Before retiring from the literary world and relinquishing all copyright to his work in 2003, Kirill...
Algerian National Cinema
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This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English...
Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond
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Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known...
Gazza: My Story
Paul Gascoigne and Hunter Davies
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Almost as soon as Gazza burst on to the scene at Newcastle United, the young Geordie was the centre...
Ideology, Political Transitions, and the City: The Case of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Recent history has seen Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) cities undergoing several transitions. Their...
David McK (3547 KP) rated Biggles: The Camels Are Coming in Books
Jan 3, 2021
Thankfully, Amazon doesn't know (or care).
I've just re-read this for the first time in something like 30 odd years, and it's amazing how well it actually holds together all those years later.
Like 'Biggles Learns To Fly' (which I also re-read recently), this is more a collection of short stories with little in the real way of any over-arching plot: vignettes which, if the author is to be believed (and I've no reason not to) are all based on true stories that either happened to him or that he heard about during his earliest flying days in the latter stages of World War One.
While the character of Biggles may not be as popular or as well-known today as during the years in which the stories were written (the 1930 through to the 1990s), there's a reason why they have endured as long as they have ...
