FLOWERS OF THE FOREST (SCOTLAND FIRST WORLD WAR)

The first full account of how World War One changed Scotland irrevocably, from the workshop of the Empire to a country marked by loss, emigration and decline. He explores the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; the boom in heavy industry and the strengthening of women's role in society following wartime employment.