British home army in the First World War been absorbed into the RDC during the war, the National Reserve was not revived. The RDC continued to guard German prisoners of war into 1919, and was gradually disbanded as the prison camps were closed. It was reconstituted in 1922 as the National Defence Corps, which became Home Defence Battalions on the outbreak of the Second World War, with the same role of guarding vulnerable points as its First World War predecessor. For the VF, drills became optional within a week of the cessation of hostilities in France, and by the end of 1918 most VF battalions had abandoned them.
The Country of the Kind The Country of the Kind "The Country of the Kind" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It was first published in the February 1956 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" and has been reprinted several times, including in "In Deep" (1963), "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (vol. 1)" (1976), and "The Golden Age of Science Fiction" (1981). The story is set in a future world in which violence and crime have been almost entirely eradicated. The main character is a man who is capable of antisocial behavior and who considers himself