Defends the Desert is great - Bertie is so marvellously bonkers in it, I love him. And Biggles trying to fly with concussion is A+++. As is the bit where he stands on Ginger.

Re. that introduction paragraph - there was a chap from intelligence during WW2 who was arrested in Spain while dressed as a woman, and to this day nobody knows why. Churchill was sent copies of the photos...