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hello mr rumpole,
i dont think england was ever alone, as the contributions of other nations towards the make up of british armed forces testify, and the entries on scottish war memorials will confirm!
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Oh certainly agreed, Mr. Martin! Many good people were looking to help in the fight at the time. But the opposition was well-armed and in better shape for a general engagement at the time. Nevertheless, as Mr. Churchill made clear, it would be one hell of an undertaking to subdue everyone in the UK and they were ready for a fight to the finish. In my view, a most admirable spirit!
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THREE volumes? Years ago when I was going through some hard times a friend of Bill Wise's gave him a slipcased TWO volume set to send to me. It was a lovely gift out of the blue.
It shall remain as such, of course. I'm just a little mystified. Is it possible that two of the volumes were combined to one?
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The early edition was 3 separate volumes. Later printings combined the 3 volumes into 2. After reading 'The Modern Shotgun', I'm not surprised it took Major Burrard eight long years to produce. What a fabulous book with so much information. I, for one am grateful he took the time and labor to produce such an outstanding work.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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In the States, we had something like the Home Guard: the State Guard. They were volunteers who replaced our National Guard units (I think the British equivalent was the Territorial Army)when they were called to active duty for the duration of the war. But we did have the advantage of being better off in terms of private ownership of firearms, including quite a large number of surplus military weapons from the WWI era.
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The version I have of Burrard's "The Modern Shotgun" has a 1960 or '61 copyright. It is the three volumes contained in Two volumes with several appendices which were written later than the original work mostly after WWII & contain much useful information.
I would recommend this work over anything I have read on the shotgun to date.
Miller/TN
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Thanks very much for clearing that up, Buzz.
While I haven't read the entire book, I've read enough here and thee to appreciate the exhaustive research Burrard did. Like you I'm grateful for his efforts as well. It is, as you mention, an outstanding work.
The letter and its discovery is a great tale in itself.
Great stuff.
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