Skipman Posted 19 December , 2018 Share Posted 19 December , 2018 The private papers of Douglas Haig, 1914-1919: being selections from the private diary and correspondence of Field-Marshal the Earl of Bemersyde - edited by Robert Blake I have been laboriously typing this out and have reached May 1915 and am very happy indeed to find it online at the wonderful archive.org Now I can copy and paste this excellent volume into my notes. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Open Bolt Posted 20 December , 2018 Share Posted 20 December , 2018 Thanks for the link - a searchable version is always a bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelcave Posted 20 December , 2018 Share Posted 20 December , 2018 Fine - but you should be able to get the far more recent (and, more to the point, fuller) version (ed John Boune and Gary Sheffield) for relative peanuts - I suspect for about £6, including postage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 20 December , 2018 Author Share Posted 20 December , 2018 3 hours ago, nigelcave said: Fine - but you should be able to get the far more recent (and, more to the point, fuller) version (ed John Boune and Gary Sheffield) for relative peanuts - I suspect for about £6, including postage. I'm sure it's excellent but it won't be possible to 'copy & paste' from it, will it? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelcave Posted 20 December , 2018 Share Posted 20 December , 2018 On the other hand, you will be able to check Blake with the updated and fuller version. And, yes, you have guessed it: I misread the typing bit as what you were still doing ... which should teach me to read through the whole thing and make sure that I have got the message. Mind you, I find typing things out means that the content registers in what passes for my mind more strongly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 20 December , 2018 Author Share Posted 20 December , 2018 1 hour ago, nigelcave said: Mind you, I find typing things out means that the content registers in what passes for my mind more strongly. I agree. It's a very good way of learning. Extremely time consuming though, especially with my two-fingered technique, which, is pretty fast, even though I say so myself. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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