John MacLeod

This is a story of the inhabitants of Lewis and Harris – a tale of a people as indomitable as their landscape and a faith as profound as the Hebridean sea.

John Macleod paints a stunning portrait of island society in Victorian Scotland held under a capricious and feudal oppression.It is an astonishing and powerful tale, beautifully accomplished and compellingly told.

"An unflinching record of what remains of  Scotland's greatest human disaster in modern history,"  - The Herald

The devastating story of the Clydebank Blitz and the terrible scale of the death and destruction caused by the bombingsJohn Macleod gives as a stunning account  and speculates on why its incineration has been so widely forgotten and its ordeal denied any place in national honour.

"MacLeod is a splendid and elegiac narrator of neglected patches of Scotland's history and brings his poetic gifts again to this, the single most dreadful event in our nation's story," - The Observer

John Macleod gives a complete account of the Clydebank Blitz and the terrible scale of death and devastation wreaked by the Luftwaffe, and explores why the ordeal would be neglected by history.

On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. This work tells the story of the Iolaire, the commitment of the people of Lewis to the war against the Kaiser, and the way of life that was destroyed.