[Marxism] 'Biggles'

[Marvin Gandall]

Ah, yes, Biggles. As in Biggles Defies The Swastika and other books, the 
first books I read on my own from my older brother's collection. But I 
remember Biggles as a Second World War ace, not WW I.  My brother also had 
the Dave Dawson series, which I also devoured. Dave Dawson of the USAF and 
his "trusty British sidekick, good old Freddy Farmer" from the RAF, who 
together destroyed the German and Japanese air forces.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham M." <gkmilner at v-app.com.au>
To: "Marv Gandall" <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
Cc: "Marxmail" <marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:50 PM
Subject: [Marxism] 'Biggles'
>
>
> Dear N.K.,
>                 I thought I'd write to you about Biggles.   I was a bit
> surprised to learn that contemporary schoolboys in Australia still read 
> the
> 'Biggles' books.   The two sons of a friend of mine were reading and
> enjoying them back in the early 1990s, and I was intrigued to learn that
> they and their friends in the local neighbourhood were very interested in
> military aviation, and that their main focus was on World War Two 
> aircraft.
> It seems now, more than fifty or sixty years after World War Two, the
> military conflicts of that war still dominate the consciousness of the
> rising generations.
>