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1914-1918 The History of the First World War by David Stevenson

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Allen Lane (Penguin Books), 2004, £25, 729pp, index, bibliography. 1914-1918 is the product of the author's success at collating a vast amount of evidence in order to provide 600 pages of compact information (references/bibliography and index creating more).  Stevenson provides a political, diplomatic and social history of the war period and it...


'Cavalry of the Clouds: A Social History of the Royal Flying Corps, 1914-18' by Dr Emma Hanna

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About this talk: This talk will show how the RFC - who together with the RNAS - developed from a select group of 2000 men and 270 machines to a strength of 300,000 servicemen and women and 22,000 planes of the Royal Air Force in April 1918. Dr Hanna will show how the personnel of the RFC dealt with the quotidian aspects of everyday life on activ...