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For over 50 years Wayne Biggles Value, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C., has flown the skies. The mythical ace to get rid of all soaring aces, the fearless pilot of everything from Sop with Camels to the initial jets, he emerged with glory from devilish scrapes all around the globe. Yet as yet Biggles has often been regarded as a storybook caricature. A dashed fine chap, certainly. But not the outstanding man he actually was. Here, for the very first time, is an perception into the 'real' man who made these activities possible. John Pearson has unravelled the absent strands in Biggles' life; delving vigorously into things that were once taboo. Why do Biggles never marry? That which was the reality about his tragic first love? And what were Biggles' real regrets and frustrations as he attempted to come quickly to conditions with a speedily producing world in peacetime? The reality - so long covered behind a stiff upper lip and an equally stiff green gin in the Officials' Mess - is at last unveiled. John Pearson was born in 1930, and informed at King's College or university School, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read record. He spent some time working on various papers, like the Economist, The Times, and the Weekend Times where for a time he published the Atticus column. After the success of his Life of Ian Fleming, he decamped with partner and family to Rome, where he lived for a few years. Mr Pearson delivered to England to research and write the life and times of the Kray brothers.
