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Issued in April 1918 - the very month that the R.A.F. was founded out of the Royal Flying Corps - this booklet is an instructional manual on the use of the American-made Lewis Gun, which was fast becoming the standard British machine gun of the Great War - in the air as well as on the ground.The booklet contains instructions for stripping the gun; notes on its mechanism; its care and cleaning; the likely causes of jams and stoppages; minor repairs; spare parts; ammunition and aiming. This booklet is a facsimile reprint of the copy held in the War Office Library and contains amendments and additions typed and pasted into the original.
Known affectionately as 'Dad's Army', the Home Guard was Britain's very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In the 'Spitfire summer' of 1940, all that the 1 million unpaid, untrained part-timers of the Local Defence Volunteers (as the organisation was originally called) wanted was a service rifle for each man, but even that was too much for a country threatened by defeat to provide. Britain's Final Defence is the first book to explore the efforts made to arm the home defence force between 1940 and 1944 and describe the full range of weaponry available for Britain's last stand against invading Axis forces.
This is a long-overdue study of Sir Frederick H. Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) during the First World War. Historians, for the most part, have either overlooked Sykes or misinterpreted him, leaving a gap in the story of British flying. Contrary to previous images of Sykes, we now see that he was not a secretive intriguer or a tangential subject in RAF history. Rather, he played a fundamental part in organizing and leading British aviation from 1912 to the end of 1918. He provided organization, visionary guidance and efficient administrative control for the fledgling service that tried to survive infancy in the heat of battle.