The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Biography and Autobiography British Soldiers
The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914 - 1919. Being Selections from the Private Diary and Correspondence of Field-Marshal The Earl Haig of Bemersyde, KT, GCB, OM, etc
by Robert Blake
ISBN
Purchase Price
£4.40 (second hand)
Date Purchased
August 4, 2018
Publisher
Eyre & Spottiswoode (1952, London)
Notes
This book is exactly what the title sets out in some detail. There are approaching 400 closely printed pages which contain Haig's private papers throughout the war. As such the book is a useful addition to the tools we already have. We do not know whether the Sheffield book about Haig's private papers (also in The Collection) is simply a modern version of this book, or something substantially different. But clearly this is the primary source.
Purchase Price
£4.40 (second hand)
Date Purchased
August 4, 2018
Publisher
Eyre & Spottiswoode (1952, London)
Notes
This book is exactly what the title sets out in some detail. There are approaching 400 closely printed pages which contain Haig's private papers throughout the war. As such the book is a useful addition to the tools we already have. We do not know whether the Sheffield book about Haig's private papers (also in The Collection) is simply a modern version of this book, or something substantially different. But clearly this is the primary source.