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...{jox.bst} bibliographysec{all.bib} Then you run bibtex, as you would normally do, but now you have to run it once for each bibliography, eg: % bibtex pri % bibtex sec Then latex it up again a couple of times to get the references right (again, as you normally would) and voila: Shiny. With a standard bibliography TeXShop can bibtex it for you, but it appears not to know about multibib, so you have to do it from the command line (not a big deal for...

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...ither the first edition sold enough to warrant going down market, or probably more likely, he wanted to get his message out to a wider audience. There was also a German edition (1927), which I'm sure would have sold relatively well, given the effortless ease with which, in the novel, a supposedly downtrodden Germany bests a smug and complacent Britain. Update: I was looking at another book of Spanner's today, Armaments and the Non-combatant: To th...

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...es to try? (I know of Gumtree.) Also, I've never been to London and have only a relatively vague idea of its geography, especially in terms of getting around on public transport, so advice as to which parts of London I should be looking at would be appreciated as well. Please note that I'm not trying to scunge (as we like to say in Australia) a sofa or a spare room from somebody! I actually need somewhere that can give me an indicative quote, and...

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...ng out that it was directed at Brett - as it is, it looks like a direct reply to CK's post immediately preceding. Apologies to CK. Anyway, keep up the good work, Brett! Ian Evans A bit more on the ROC, it wasn't a "job" for most of us - we were part time. Two hours a week, plus weekend exercises and annual camp. I, and a couple of mates from school, joined for the chance to get very familiar with the RAF's flying machines. They used to put on an "...

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...reason why it was used for the Do 335 fighter). Also, as you note, it can fly with only one engine -- that's generally true of a twin-engine aircraft, but in this case there's no yaw (from the remaining engine pulling to one side, though there'd still be torque from the propeller rotation to deal with -- no idea how significant that is, not being a pilot or aerospace engineer!) Certainly once jets came along there was little incentive to push pist...

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...he development of the aerial knock-out blow. Frederick Sykes was a relatively early believer in the power of strategic bombing, as far as the RAF was concerned, but even the exhaustive semi-biography by Eric Ash doesn't pin down when he did adopt it. (Ash suggests before the war, but doesn't really show this.) But from July 1915, Sykes was the commander of the RNAS in the eastern Mediterranean, including the Dardanelles. He would have been aware t...

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Yep, me! On current plans, I'm flying in to Heathrow on 9 September and flying out on 1 October (if I'm not mistaken, on an A380 both ways). It's mainly for a holiday and to catch up with people, but I will also be attending the Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 conference at Exeter. That finishes on the 12th, after which I'm thinking of heading down to Cornwall and then probably Wales. After that I'm not sure (maybe even a...

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...nical view with hindsight, and reinforces those points - if Comets could only fly now with Ratiers, it would be another performance issue of the type, which has been noted, had a number already. I'm afraid given that Black Dog's posts ceased to engage given the need to anonymously insult my daring to have an opinion. The funny thing is, having recently re-read several accounts of the Comet and Ratiers, they are consistently highlighted as an odd p...

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...l groups (such as the BUF's flying club) and anyone whose contribution to flying consisted mostly of their war service. That means no Sir Oswald Mosley, in particular, who was in the RFC for a time. While he did draw upon the image of the airman from time to time he wasn't actively involved in the aviation community as far as I can tell. Having said that, those who did serve (or, in one case, lead) in the air services (RFC, RNAS, RAF) have been ma...

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...ally been broadcast -- German radio broadcast a response (although apparently only internationally, not domestically) accusing Harris of admitting to murdering women and children, etc. Also, Henry Probert discusses the episode in Bomber Harris: His Life and Times (London: Greenhill Books, 2003), 187-8, where it is noted that the broadcast apparently did 'arouse the attention' in Germany that had been hoped. But still, that's a fair point about the...