The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918, F.E.G. Ponsonby

[lostinspace]

Thought I would add a couple of books to the growing list: "The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918" (Vol. I & II) by Ponsonby and "The History of the Second Division, 1914-1918" by Everard Wyrall (Vol. I & II), provided by Google Books.

Regards, lostinspace

[Steven Broomfield]

What happened to Vol III of Ponsonby?

[lostinspace]

Maybe the U. of Wisconsin doesn't have the third volume or perhaps Google hasn't digitized it yet?

lostinspace

[Steven Broomfield]

Shame - it's the best bit. You find out who won.

[lostinspace]

Picky, picky, picky, in future I will only list complete sets, ok?

[Steven Broomfield]

I wasn't be entirely serious, to be honest.

However, I do find it odd they should digitalise only two volumes: I mean, you'd hardly read two thirds of a book and leave the ending, would you? I'm actually not picking at you (or anyone else, for that matter): I just wonder why only two volumes were digitised.

[lostinspace]

I have no idea why Google would digitize two volumes but not the third unless the loaning library didn't have the final volume. With me it's more a case of "beggars can't be choosers", I appreciate anything I can get on line since the library system is slow and a large number of books are unavailable here anyway.

[ianw]

Google have an ambitious programme to digitise everything that's out of print. They have been accused of control freakery.

But what have they got against Ponsonby III - I think we should be told.

[lostinspace]

Guess they don't have anything against Ponsonby, I did another search of Google Books and found volume three under "more editions", all three volumes can be downloaded.

[Steven Broomfield]

Result!

It's a jolly good book, to be honest, so I reckon you'll enjoy it ... and thanks for posting the information. I really wasn't having a go.