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Free Download Jo Stanley, "A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy"
English | ISBN: 1780767560 | 2018 | 256 pages | PDF | 50 MB
Never at Sea’ was the motto of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) in its two-stage life from 1917-1919 and 1939-1994. Yet most of its members-commonly known as Wrens-wanted to serve on the ocean wave. This book considers the history and identity of the Wrens and shows how they developed from port-bound cooks, clerks, telegraphists, radar Descriptionters and mechanics to fully-fledged members of the naval service. Using previously-unpublished first-hand material, this book explores the very different periods in the twentieth century history of women associated with the Royal Navy. It shows how Wrens moved from the exceptionalised and chaperoned ladies of WW1 to the reality of the twenty-first century’s highly respected female submariners and warship commanders. Jo Stanley provides the first accessible gendered analysis of Wrens and their successors and positions the women of the Royal Navy as above all, women who wanted mobility: the right to join the fleet.

Free Download Soundevice Digital Royal Compressor v2.8 | 13.4 Mb
Inspired by a model of the classic British device from the Beatles era used on hundreds of records since the sixties Royal Compressor delivers the true vintage analogue sound and feel. Pleasant saturation and sensitive compression are something every track really needs.

Free Download The Royal Navy and Fishery Protection: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present
by Jon Wise
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399041703 | 320 Pages | True ePUB | 13.6 MB

Free Download E.H.H. Archibald – The Fighting Ship in the Royal Navy 897-1984
Military Press | 1987 | ISBN: 0517633329 | English | 434 pages | PDF | 273.43 MB
Traces the history of the British warship, shows how early vessels were used in battle, and provides detailed information about all ships including frigates, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines.

Free Download The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth By Anna Keay
2016 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 140884608X | EPUB | 6 MB
James, Duke of Monmouth, the adored illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father’s orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Pepys described him as ‘the most skittish, leaping gallant that ever I saw, always in action, vaulting or leaping or clambering’. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as King. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty almost beyond fathoming. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D’Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller’s gift to enrapturing effect. She brings to life the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission ‘lived a very dissolute and irregular life’, but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His life, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping history of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.

Free Download The Royal Navy and Fishery Protection: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present
by Jon Wise
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399041703 | 515 Pages | PDF (conv) | 7.5 MB

Free Download Magyar Warriors: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945 by Dénes Bernád, Charles K. Kliment
English | May 20th, 2022 | ISBN: 1912174162 | 404 pages | True EPUB | 35.83 MB
The first book in the comprehensive, two-volume reference covering all aspects of the Hungarian military from the interwar period through WWII.

Free Download W.D.G. Blundell – Royal Navy Battleships 1895-1946
Almark Publications | 1973 | ISBN: 0855240938 | English | 100 pages | PDF | 86.53 MB
A detailed reference book covering the final fifty years of battleship development in the Royal Navy, including both World War periods.

Free Download Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939: Planning for War Against Japan by Andrew Field
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0415407753 | 288 Pages | PDF | 7.2 MB
Between the ending of the Great War and the start of the Second World War in 1939, the Royal Navy remained the largest in the world.

Free Download Royal Flying Corps Kitbag: Aircrew Uniforms and Equipment from the War Over the Western Front in WWI by Mark Hillier
English | May 27, 2020 | ISBN: 1526752999 | 232 pages | PDF | 22 Mb
The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Wing of the new Corps in May. In the days following the outbreak of war in 1914, the program for mobilization of the RFC was, in the main, successfully carried out. The first aircraft set out across the Channel on the morning of 13 August, taking off from Dover at 06.25 hours.