The British Army 2008-a FREE offer of a book text

[gam47]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In August I self Published "A Moment in Time" "The British Army 2008", a 250 hardback print run, this with 124 photos and 70 badge drawings. This was completely sold out, and I will not print any more. This was a ZERO profit making exercise.

I am offering FREE to anyone who requires it, the text of the book only, in a electronic file copy. This is in 10point, 456 pages,paginated ready to print. In 28 Chapters, 27 annexes to them, and seven appendicies, I wrote what would have been once called a 'handbook', the content of which is what I would want buy in a handbook.

All regiments and corps of the army are discussed (including a chapter on the Royal Marines and Royal Air Force Regiment), unit organisation and equipment tables, ceremonial, air operations and parachuting, amphibious landing support and security of nuclear weapons, the Royal Bodyguards to the Masons, training including that of overseas armies, a through description of the weapons currently in use, AFVs including the wheeled fighting vehicles (even tells what happened to the 40 missing Challenger-2 MBTs) artillery/engineer/logistical/ signals equipment, honours and awards to dress, ration packs to pace stick, and the ongoing saga of the Bearskin Cap. With lots of trivia and historical items.

All the information is taken from the public domain, and only reputable sources used, NOTHING from the internet such as Wikepedia and discussion groups-much of what is written is in total variance with such. And from the nearly 4,000 copies sent out (hard and electronic) only one factual error has been found, that pointed out by Bob Griffin (the author of the superb books on the Chieftain and Conquerer tanks) this dealing with CR-2 dozer blades, which was corrected.

This is a totally genuine FREE offer, see for one example the British Army Rumour Service entry at : http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/...2.html#2157842

this has some positive reports on it, you will see at the start some very negative posts from people who did and have not, actually obtained copies of the text, make up your own mind about it.

Or http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/showthre...mp;goto=newpost

If you wish a copy please send a email to my home address. TYPE IN do not cut and paste, gam47@bigpond.com, and within the BODY OF THE TEXT place your email address for ease of response. My software does NOT ACCEPT CUT AND PASTE, and will reject SUCH MESSAGES.

Yours,

G/.

G.A.MACKINLAY

[leigh kitchen]

Thank you for this offer - having just read the "reviews" at ARRSE & Defence Talk put me on your list please - email on the way to you.

[David S]

What a wonderful thing to do

email inbound

[David S]

Got it

It is a valuable resource

Thanks for the generosity :cheers:

[gam47]

Got it

It is a valuable resource

Thanks for the generosity

[gam47]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Last year, I offered free to all interested parties a book, being a "A Moment In Time : The British Army", an electronic copy revised from the original hardcover.

Due to a glitch, I became unable to get back onto the thread, and a number of people who received it stated the same.

Having offered it up on other discussion groups as well, by this October, some 7,500 copies have now been sent out, and it is up on a number of websites as a permanent download item. And many people have subsequently sent copies on - one gentleman in South Korea informed me with great glee that he had sent 107 copies off to fellow enthusiasts!

Due to a great deal of feedback, I have decided to revamp the text and enhance it with events/actions that have occurred over the past year. The bulk of the original text is still of course current and correct. The chapters will be changed around, for examples all UK Special Forces will be in one chapter, as will military music.

And such as the regiments of infantry, will have individual chapters, this to include a comprehensive historical entry for their origins - rather than the simple listing of the original regiments of foot from which they originated. Other historical items will also be enhanced.

Therefore I request that anyone has any ideas for such to enhance the text, I would be most appreciative.

Having written to the publishers and given them hard/disc copies of the book, I was very disappointed to see when I received a copy of "The Armed Forces of the United Kingdom 2010-2011" a certain amount of incorrect information. And I hope that the next edition of my text will correct this.

Due to copyright reasons, I had removed from the electronic text the 124 photos and 70 drawings that had been in the hardcover. For those interested, a website jam packed full of good quality photos of British vehicles :

plain-military.tripod.com

Whilst for those persons who prefer a hard copy, the following profusely illustrated, but quite cheap books are available from Tankograd Publishing, Am Weichselgarten, Germany

REME : Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers : Vehicles of 2 Battalion

REME - Equipment Support to 7th Armoured Brigade.

Royal Armoured Engineers.

British Next Generation Armour : Types and Details of Modern British Vehicle

Armour.

British Army Training Unit Suffield : Types and Details of Modern British

Vehicle Armour.

The company will deal directly with mail order purchasers, and these books

(in German and English) I cannot recommend more highly.

For those persons who wish to see enhancements made to the text, please contact me at my home address :

gam47 @ bigpond.com

I hope to put out the 2nd Edition (solely as a electronic text - no hardcover this time) in December/January.

And of course if anyone wants a copy of the original, just ask - it is FREE!

Yours,

G/.

G.A.MACKINLAY

[Arthur]

Hello,

I would like to thank you for your very generous offer, and I am sure that it will be a valuable reference.

Thanks again.

Regards

Arthur

[FrontlineAntiques]

What a wonderful thing to do. That is an incredibly generous offer.

Please find my email, which is winging its way to you as we speak

Kindest and heart-felt regards

Dan :cheers: