Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vi
4. List of Abbreviations vii
5. Glossary ix
6. Acknowledgements x
7. Introduction: A ‘Grand, Unified Collective’? 1
8. Prologue: Scotland on the Eve of War 17
9. 1 ‘Here Come the Keelies’: The Government Evacuation Scheme in Scotland 28
10. 2 ‘What That Boy Needed Was a Real Good Thrashing’: Scotland’s Moral Crisis, 1940–5 63
11. 3 ‘A War of Their Own’: Discontent and Subversion on the Scottish Home Front 93
12. 4 ‘We Here in Scotland Can Also Take It’: Morale in Scotland, 1939–45 125
13. 5 The Great Escape: Scottish Wartime Holidays 160
14. 6 Leisure and Pleasure: Scottish Responses to War’s Disruption of Everyday Life 186
15. 7 ‘Scotland’s Fighting Fields’: The Transformation of Rural Scotland 225
16. Epilogue: A Story Worth Telling? 256
17. Bibliography 259
18. Index 271