By Paul Leaman
Fokker airplane of global struggle One tells the tale of 1 of conflict's most renowned airplane businesses. From the Fokker Spinne of 1912, via to the Fokker D.VIII of 1918, and taking in such well-known kinds because the Eindekker, D.VII and Dr.I triplane, Paul Leaman describes the airplane in addition to the boys that flew and designed them. the writer has spent decades learning advert writing approximately Fokker airplane, and has placed this wealth of expertise into this very great addition to the Crowood Aviation sequence. it is going to attract lovers, modellers and historians alike.
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See W. A. Armstrong, ‘The use of information about occupation’, in E. A. ), Nineteenth century society (Cambridge, 1972), 200–9, for a more complete discussion of the problems of the 1911 Census categories. See Registrar General’s Decennial Supplement, Part II, Occupational mortality, fertility and infant mortality, 1921, ciii–cxiv, for a list of occupational categories. See Armstrong, ‘The use of information about occupation’, 203. Many scholars have identified the problems associated with this method of classification, highlighting the fact that the social status of the children was determined by the male occupation.
Recruits were selected solely on education, sporting ability and occupation. 17 The most prominent and important 14 15 16 17 been used instead. See W. A. Armstrong, ‘The use of information about occupation’, in E. A. ), Nineteenth century society (Cambridge, 1972), 200–9, for a more complete discussion of the problems of the 1911 Census categories. See Registrar General’s Decennial Supplement, Part II, Occupational mortality, fertility and infant mortality, 1921, ciii–cxiv, for a list of occupational categories.
S. 8 However, as P. J. ’9 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 See McKibbin for an analysis of the middle-class preoccupation with joining clubs and societies in 1920s Britain: Classes and cultures, 87. Ian Beckett has emphasized the fact that the Territorials were primarily a working-class movement: ‘The Territorial Force’, 145. It was likely to be the skilled workers, with regular leisure time, who adhered to ‘respectable’ values similar to the middle classes, who were attracted to the Territorials. R. Roberts, ‘The class structure of the ‘‘classic slum’’’, in P.