Biggles Defends The Desert (2003) By Captain W.E. Johns
 
Biggles Sweeps the Desert by W. E. Johns was first published in Oct 1942 by Hodder and Stoughton. There have been at least 5 subsequent editions in the English language with the latest one by Red Fox under the title Biggles Defends the Desert. The title page of the 1st ed. gives the subtitle: "A 'Biggles' Squadron Story". The events in the book take place around 1941 or 1942 in the North African desert.
 
In April 1967, as part of its Biggles series, French publisher Aredit published a comic strip adaptation entitled Biggles au pays de soif (Biggles in the land of thirst). Earlier on, Les Presses de la Cité had translated the Johns novel and published it as Biggles dans le désert. But Aredit had to use a different title because of what appears to be a blunder. In the previous issue of their Biggles comic strip series, in Jan 1966, they had already used the title Biggles dans le désert. That issue contained three Biggles stories none of which dealt with deserts! To extend the confusion, in the Miklo catalogue for its Biggles Héritage series, the last book is listed as Biggles dans le desert, with cover artwork appropriate to Biggles Sweeps the Desert. It is not clear if this book was actually published but it appears Miklo decided to go back to the original title.
 
Soft Cover 
206 pages
In Good Condition