Based on the highly successful television documentary series of the same name, Scotland's War gathers together the reminiscences of Scots who survived the trauma of the Second World War. Seona Robertson and Les Wilson heard the testimony of hundreds of Scots - from factory girls to fighting men, prisoners-of-war to refugees, evacuated children to rationed housewives - and have compiled this unique, compelling and very vivid account of what the war meant and felt like to the ordinary people who lived through it.

The ballon goes up -- The guests of war -- Bloody Orkney -- Left in France -- Gerneral Sikorski's Scotsman -- Collar the lot! -- Blitzkrieg -- The girl who made the thingummybob -- Manned by women -- All Jock Tamson's bairns -- Don't sit under the apple tree -- Mads dogs and scotsman -- Five years without a banana -- Every night something awful -- Miracle behind barbed wire -- Revenge on Rommel -- Those in peril -- Achtung Achnacarry! -- The D-Day dodgers -- A day at the beach -- News from the front -- Bamboo and barbed wire -- Winning the peace?.