{"product_id":"biggles-the-authorized-biography-paperback","title":"Biggles: The Authorized Biography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Pearson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over fifty years James Biggles Worth, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C., has flown the skies. The mythical ace to end all flying aces, the fearless pilot of everything from Sop with Camels to the earliest jets, he emerged with glory from devilish scrapes all over the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet until now Biggles has often been seen as a storybook caricature. A dashed fine chap, certainly. But not the extraordinary man he really was. Here, for the first time, is an insight into the 'real' man who made these adventures possible. John Pearson has unravelled the missing strands in Biggles' life; delving vigorously into subjects that were once taboo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy did Biggles never marry? What was the truth about his tragic first love? And what were Biggles' real regrets and frustrations as he tried to come to terms with a rapidly developing world in peacetime? The truth - so long hidden behind a stiff upper lip and an equally stiff pink gin in the Officers' Mess - is at last revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe has worked on various newspapers, including the\u003ci\u003e Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ewhere for a time he wrote the \u003ci\u003eAtticus\u003c\/i\u003e column. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the success of his \u003ci\u003eLife of Ian Fleming\u003c\/i\u003e, he decamped with wife and family to Rome, where he lived for some years. Mr Pearson returned to England to research and write the life and times of the Kray brothers in \u003ci\u003eThe Profession of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e and has since written many more successful works of both fiction and non-fiction. Biographies remain his specialty with accomplished studies of the Sitwells, Winston Churchill and the Royal Family following his earlier successes.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 396\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42717781884991,"sku":"9781448208005","price":34.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3e91359d423c218e8e0a67798bfdceb7.webp?v=1765079659","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/biggles-the-authorized-biography-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}