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The Flowers of the Forest - Scotland and the First World War (Paperback, New Edition)
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The Flowers of the Forest - Scotland and the First World War (Paperback, New Edition)
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On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded
throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not
only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced
half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the
cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In
addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the
colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and
financial backwater. Emigration increased as morale slumped in the
face of economic stagnation and decline. The country had paid a
disproportionately high price in casualties, a result of huge
numbers of volunteers and the use of Scottish battalions as shock
troops in the fighting on the Western Front and Gallipoli - young
men whom the novelist Ian Hay called 'the vanished generation'. In
this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the
war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of
themes - 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; and the boom in the heavy
industries and the strengthening of women's role in society
following on from wartime employment.
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