BIGGLES FOLLOWS ON
Book First Published on 14th June 1952 - 158 pages
This story was first published, in six monthly parts, as BIGGLES
FOLLOWS ON in the Boy’s Own Paper Volume 74, issues 7 to 12, dated April 1952 to
September 1952
The first edition dust jacket showing the original price of 7
shillings and 6 pence
CHAPTERS
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X – THE AIR COMMODORE IS WORRIED
A chance sighting of Erich von
Stalhein by Ginger leads to investigations as to what he is up to. He is
observed meeting a soldier, Guardsman Ross, and encouraging him to desert from
the army to join an International Brigade. Ross is recruited to assist Biggles
and agrees to desert so that Biggles and Ginger can follow him and find out
where other deserters have gone. They follow Ross to Paris and then on to
Prague in Czechoslovakia. Things go wrong when Biggles unexpectedly (and
literally) bumps in von Stalhein. Forced to flee, Biggles and Ginger lose Ross
and hide out with an English secret agent in Prague. From here, they again have
to flee, in a desperate roof top scramble (depicted on the dust cover of the
book) and eventually they manage to get Algy to fly them out of the Country. An
attempt to find Ross in the Russian sector of Berlin fails and Biggles then has
to organise an expedition to find Ross in Manchuria. He and other deserters are
being held prisoner there and being forced to broadcast propaganda on the radio
to Korea. Calling on help from both Wung Ling (from
the Biggles short story 'The Case of the
Mandarin's Treasure Chest' published in BIGGLES OF THE SPECIAL AIR
POLICE in September 1953 – some 15 months after Biggles Follows on was
published) and Gimlet King and his team (from W.E. Johns' "Gimlet" books), Biggles and the
team go and rescue Ross and blow up the radio station.
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Biggles Follows On
Subtitle - A story of the Cold War in Europe and Asia
Publication Details - published by Hodder & Stoughton
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