The true story of a young student minister and his one and only love from the earliest days of their friendship in 1911, when Jessie is just sixteen, to a military hospital bed on the Normandy coast after the battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Hugh's letters take the reader from Shettleston in Glasgow to many scenic parts of Scotland: to Nairn, Bulnain Bridge, Arran and Loch Awe; from the depot in Inverness to camps south of the border, from billets in the quiet villages of Flanders and France to his final resting place on Les Terrasses at Le Tréport. Hugh evokes the strenuous routine of army camps, the relative calm of billets, the horror, brutality and excitement of trenches and battle. And in writing, he immortalizes his love for Jessie.

Under the shadow: Letters of love and war, 1911-1917 : the poignant testimony and story of Captain Hugh Wallace Mann, 7th & 5th Battalions, the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and Jessie Reid

Brid Hetherington

Jessie Reid

Cualann Press

This work contains over 40 articles, most written by Scottish survivors of Japanese Prisoner of War camps, as they describe the indescribable: deaths from beatings, disease and malnutrition; forced labour and capricious speedos; heroic attempts at saving lives in bamboo shacks awash after the monsoon with little or no medical equipment and the bombing of unmarked ships by Allied planes. These articles, buried in a bottle and retrieved after the war, are historical records but also provide a tribute to the human spirit in the depths of adversity.

Beyond the Bamboo Screen: Scottish Prisoners of War Under the Japanese

History

McGowran, Tom

Military

This excerpt is taken from the foreword by Alan Hamilton, the staff correspondent of The Times and author.Even at this distance, the First World War is imprinted on our consciousness as a watershed of history: the end of the long sunlit Victorian afternoon of British imperial power, the first medieval war fought with weapons of mass destruction, the slaughter of an entire generation at the hands of generals better acquainted with horses than with men.

On flows the Tay: Perth and the First World War (Third book of the Voices of war series)

Bill Harding

Of fish and men: Tales of a Scottish fisher

Watson, David C.

Biographies & Memoirs

The author describes briefly his early days in Lanarkshire and holidays with relatives near Clerish before war disrupts his studies. Shot down and injured while on a bombing mission on steelworks near Strassburg, he is eventually arrested and taken to the first of many POW camps: Dulag Luft. Compelled to escape Nazi POW camps by his longing for freedom and inevitable capture, solitary confinment, thirst, hunger, brutality and occasional encounters with kindness.

Open road to faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW camps, 1941-1945 (Voice of War Series)

Winton Andrew S

In Search of Willie Patterson: A Scottish Soldier in the Age of Imperialism

Fred Reid

Europe

Gurkha Highlander : Walking Mallaig to Stonehaven

Travel

Neil Griffiths

Thomas Carruthers was a household name in the 1860s, widely known in the world of sport as Scotland's Champion professional sprinter. Remarkably, he went on to become equally well known as a golf club maker. He lived beside Bruntsfield's famous links in Edinburgh for 60 years and his life as a golf club maker, which began in the 1880s, is set in an age of unprecedented experimentation and inventiveness. His invention of the through-bore short socket for metal golf clubs, patented in 1890, was to catapult him into the ranks of the best makers alongside such names as Forrester, Park and Simpson. It is regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most important golf patents of the nineteenth century. His clubs regularly appear in the catalogues of the major auction houses. Every one of the early United States manufacturers sold Carruthers' designed iron clubs and club manufacturers used his design long after the patent had expired.

Golf Club Maker : Thomas Carruthers (1840-1924)

tom-carruthers

Gurkhas are not often seen in the Western Isles; perhaps these were the first. Hebridean Gurkha tells the tale of what was to be much more than a walking holiday for Neil and five Gurkhas. As the boys set off in heavy rain across the low peat bogs of Lewis, they were to encounter the rocky hills of Harris before striding along the sweeping white beaches of the Uists under blue skies. Then on to the sand-ringed Isle of Barra where a boatman took them to their journey's end, Barra Head in the far south. The wee men from Nepal called it 'Barra Heaven'. great Highland pipe a constant accompaniment. It involves the search for penguins, haggis and the perfect pool table, Compton MacKenzie and Bonnie Prince Charlie, on the isles where the sea meets the sky, and the Hebrides meet the Himalayas. It is about marching through some of the most dazzling scenery in the world, hearing about its folklore and history, while all the time acquiring more and more islander friends. The Gurkha penchant for laughter, singing, dancing, whisky and tartan all came together in a land that couldn't be much further from their home.

Hebridean Gurkha: walking the Outer Isles

GRIFFITHS, Neil

This new, expanded edition of Of Fish and Men is a heart warming and often amusing collection of anecdotes and personal observations from over forty years of fishing, linked by a commentary on the author's life and times. The book is about much more than fishing; it is about characters and countryside, and about fitting a cherished pastime around the demands of career and family. The reader is taken into the author's middle years and a perceptive commentary on the stresses and strains of midlife. as the author writes just as freely of his failures and frustrations, as of his successes. The book promises a rewarding and entertaining read for anglers, country lovers, and anyone with Scottish roots or leanings. The expanded version will be a delight to all who enjoyed the original book. It will also strike a chord with any reader struggling to come to terms with the particular frustrations of the midlife crisis, or just reaching that time when they begin to question what it's all about.

Of Fish and Men: Tales of a Scottish Fisher

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

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