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Free Download Michael Senior, "The Soldiers’ Peace: Demobilizing the British Army 1919"
English | ISBN: 1526703041 | 2018 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge – how could the British army that had been built up on an unprecedented scale during the war be cut back to a peacetime size and how could millions of soldiers be returned to civilian life?In November 1918, the last month of the war, the British army numbered 3.75 million. One year later that number was reduced to 890,000. This was a remarkable feat of demobilization but, as Michael Senior shows, it was by no means a trouble-free process. He describes in vivid detail how demobilization took place, the acute difficulties that arose, and how they were dealt with.The obstacles that had to be overcome were legion, and urgent, for the task had to be completed rapidly to prevent social unrest. At the same time prisoners of war had to be repatriated, the wounded and maimed had to be cared for and permanent cemeteries had to be laid out for the battlefield dead. In addition, war materiel had to be disposed and the army had to be reorganized into a force suitable for the challenges of 1919.The task was immense, as were the risks, and Michael Senior’s study makes fascinating reading.

Free Download John Sandars – The Sherman Tank in British Service 1942-45
Osprey Publishing | 2001 | ISBN: 0850453615 | English | 52 pages | PDF | 11.94 MB
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Free Download Barry D. Powers, "Strategy Without Slide-Rule: British Air Strategy 1914-1939 "
English | ISBN: 0367644509 | 2023 | 292 pages | EPUB | 369 KB
The early history of British aerial defence development is one of misdirection and delusion. The misdirection, judging by the criteria of successful aerial defence in World War II, was primarily in the downgrading of home defence measures including the fighter plane. The delusion, again judging by Britain’s efforts in that second world war, was primarily in the assumption of the effects to be obtained by strategic bombing.

Free Download Bernd Kortmann, "Varieties of English: Volume 1: The British Islands"
English | ISBN: 3110196352 | 2008 | 512 pages | PDF | 4 MB
*With CD-ROM Companion* This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken on the British Isles, including lesser-known varieties such as those spoken in Orkney and Shetland and the Channel Islands. The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. The articles are followed by exercises and study questions. The exercises are geared towards students and can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. Instructors can use the exercises, sound samples and interactive maps to enhance their classroom presentations and to highlight important language features. The accompanying CD-ROM contains interactive maps and speech samples that supplement the printed articles and offer material and data for further research. The rich detail found in the chapters as well as the valuable tools on the CD-Rom make this survey of English Varieties a mainstay for researchers and teachers.

Free Download Josephine Botting, "Adrian Brunel and British Cinema of the 1920s: The Artist versus the Moneybags"
English | ISBN: 1399501356 | 2023 | 228 pages | PDF | 17 MB
British cinema has been in the shadow of Hollywood for over a hundred years, constantly attempting to define itself in an effort to challenge its dominance. During the 1920s, a small group of intellectuals argued that injecting a level of ‘art’ into the medium was the way to do this, a view strongly opposed by the industry’s commercial forces.