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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- Subject: Re: Austers, Biggles & Brit War Comics
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:45:06 GMT
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- In article <thos.722492043@suite.sw.oz.au> thos@suite.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen) writes:
- >In <By1Esn.Hno@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
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- >The book 'Spitfire Parade' is about the battle. This is the book where
- >he meets Bertie (Lord Lissie), and several others that hang around in
- >most of the WW2 books. There are notable things about 'Spitfire Parade'
- >that make some of it an obvious rehash of some parts of 'Biggles of 266'
- >'Biggles, Pioneer Air Fighter' etc. Almost certainly rushed out as a
- >patriotic measure during the war, probably during the battle itself.
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- OK...
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- I'll have to find this book.
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- >One of my favorites was 'Biggles in Burma'. Don't forget he also joined
- >the Foreign Legion (at least, he and Algy did).
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- I remember the Foreign Legion one, and "Biggles in Burma" might have been
- the one with the spiked chewing gum...
-
- >How about the Worrals or Gimlet books?
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- I've seen all of _one_ Gimlet book. Something about the Carribean and
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