Introduction

This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War.

Here are gathered together well-known writers like John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie, as well as poets like Joseph Lee and Roderick Watson Kerr, who found their true voices fighting in a war to end wars.

There is also a substantial contribution from women writers in the work of Violet Jacob, Naomi Mitchison and Mary Symon.