Biggles Defies the Swastika by Captain W.E. Johns

Hardcover. Original cloth. Condition: Acceptable Used copy. pp. 198 illusts  (no dust jacket, some rubbing to cloth). Originally published in 1941. Biggles is on a mission to Norway, posing as a Norwegian citizen called Sven Hendrik, to chart useful landing sites for British Air Intelligence when the Germans invade. The speed of the invasion leaves Biggles trapped in the country but with his passable Norwegian and his fluent German, he is able to pass off as a German sympathiser. Returning to the air club at Boda that he was using as his base, Biggles finds that the Germans have now taken it over. Due to bluff and circumstance, Biggles is admitted into the German Air Force with the rank of “Leutnant”.

Pages are discoloured with age and foxed on the page edges but no tears or damage. A good reading copy.