Books about the Memorial
Scotland's Shrine - The Scottish National War Memorial
Summer 2014 saw the publication of Professor Duncan Macmillan's book "Scotland's Shrine - The Scottish National War Memorial". The book was commissioned by the Trustees of the Memorial and has been a critical success. The book records the history of the Memorial from concept, to completion in 1927. Sir Hew Strachan, one of Britain's leading authorities on World War One, said of this book: "It is a magnificent book: wonderful photographs and matched by serious scholarship. In a flood of books for the centenary that don't matter, at last one that does."
Although "Scotland's Shrine" cannot be bought from the Memorial Shop, it can be from all good retailers, Historic Scotland shops and direct from the publisher Lund Humphries.
Other Books about The Scottish National War MemoriaI
Detailed below is an extensive list of books, many of which are out of print, that also may be of interest. It is suggested that those interested approach their local library or a dealer specialising in second-hand military books.
General guides to the Scottish National War Memorial
| The Scottish National War Memorial | Grant & Murray Ltd, Edinburgh, 1932 | |
| Ian Hay | Their Name Liveth - The Book of The Scottish National War Memorial | Thomson Litho Ltd, East Kilbride, 1985 |
The art and architecture of the memorial
| Professor Murdo Macdonald | Scottish Art | Thames & Hudson |
| Professor Duncan Macmillan | Scottish Art in the 20th Century | Mainstream Publishing |
| Miles Glendinning, Ranald MacInnes & Aunghus Mackenie | A History of Scottish Architecture | Edinburgh University Press, 1996 |
Other useful publications
| Philip Longworth | The Unending Vigil- A History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 1917 - 1984 | Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton, 1985 |
| Rose E B Coombs | Before Endeavours Fade - A Guide to the Battlefields of The First World War | Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., London 1986 |
| In Flanders Fields Museum Guide to the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres | Ypres, 1998 | |
| John Giles | Flanders Then and Now - The Ypres Salient and Passchendaele | Picardy Publishing Ltd., London 1987 |
| Alan Borg | War Memorials | Leo Cooper, London 1991 |
| Michael Scott | The Ypres Salient | Gliddon Books, Norwich 1992 |
| Brigadier-General J E Edmonds | History of the Great War Based on Official Documents | Imperial War Museum and Battery Press Inc., London 1996 |
| Ray Westlake | British Battalions in France & Belgium 1914 | Leo Cooper, London 1997 |
| Ray Westlake | British Regiments at Gallipoli | Leo Cooper, London 1996 |
| K W Mitchinson | Pioneer Battalions in the Great War | Leo Cooper, London 1997 |
| Ray Westlake | British Battalions on the Somme | Leo Cooper, London 1994 |
| Ernest W Bell | Soldiers Killed on the First Day of The Somme | Ernest W Bell, Bolton 1977 |
| David Brown | Warship Losses of World War Two | Arms and Armour Press, London 1995 |
| Graham Ross | Scotland's Forgotten Valour | MacLean Press, Portree 1995 |
| Diana M Henderson | The Scottish Regiments | Harper Collins, Glasgow 1996 |
| Derek G Law | The Royal Navy - An Annotated Bibliography | Greenhill Books, London 1988 |
| Julian Putkowski &Julian Sykes | Shot at Dawn - Executions in World War One by authority of the British Army Act | Leo Cooper, London 1996 |
| David Ascoli | A Companion to The British Army 1660-1983 | Harrap, London 1984 |
| David Chandler Ed. | The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army | OUP, Oxford 1994 |
| The Register of the Victoria Cross | This England Books, Cheltenham 1988 | |
| Norman L R Franks | Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War | Midland Publishing Ltd, Hinckley, 1998 |
| J B Salmond | The History of the 51st Highland Division 1939-1945 | Pentland Press, Edinburgh 1994 |
| Bill McAndrew | The Canadians and The Italian Campaign 1943-1945 | Editions Art Global Inc., Montreal 1996 |
| Simon Fowler and others | RAF Records in the PRO- PRO Readers' Guide No. 8 | PRO Publications, London 1994 |
| Wing Commander C G Jefford | RAF Squadrons | Airlife Publishing Ltd., Shrewsbury 1988 |
| Ray Westlake | The Territorial Battalions | Guild Publishing, London 1986 |
| Brigadier E A James | British Regiments 1914-1918 | Naval & Military Press Ltd., Heathfield 1998 |
| Angus Fairrie | Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) | Queen's Own Highlanders Amalgamation Trustees, Golspie 1998 |
| Martin Midddlebrook and Chris Everitt | The Bomber Command War Diaries - An Operational Reference Book 1939-1945 | Midland Publishing Ltd., Earl Shilton 1995 |
| N A M Rodger | Naval Records for Genealogists - PRO Handbook No. 22 | PRO, London 1984 |
| Kelvin Smith and others | Records of Merchant Shipping and Seamen - PRO Readers' Guide No. 20 | PRO Publications, London 1998 |
| Major-General A G Wauchope | A History of The Black Watch Royal Highlanders in the Great War 1914-1918 | In three volumes,The Medici Society Ltd., London 1926 |
| John Ewing | The History of the 9th Scottish Division 1914-1919, | John Murray, London 1921 |
| Historical Records of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders | In seven volumes, William Blackwood, Edinburgh 1909-1962 | |
| H J Williamson | The Roll of Honour Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force for the Great War 1914-18 | Naval &Military Press Ltd., Dallington 1992 |
| O A Cooke | The Canadian Military Experience 1867-1995 - A Bibliography | Department of National Defence, Ottawa 1997 |
| John F Prescott | In Flanders Fields - The story of John McCrae | Boston Mills Press, Erin, Ontario, 1985 |
| Lt. Colonel R R Thomson | The 52nd Lowland Division 1914-1918 | Maclehose, Jackson & Co., Glasgow 1923 |
| George Blake | Mountain and Flood - The History of the 52nd Lowland Division 1939-1946 | Jackson Son & Co., Glasgow 1950 |
| Dugal MacEchern | The Sword of the North - Highland Memories of the Great War | Robert Carruthers & Sons, Inverness 1923 |
| Chris Hobson | Airmen Died in the Great War 1914-1918 | J B Hayward & Son, Suffolk 1995 |
| Lt. Colonel J Stewart and John Buchan | The Fifteenth Scottish Division 1914-1919 | William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh 1926 |
| Lieutenant-General H G Martin | History of the 15th Scottish Division 1939-1945 | William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., Edinburgh 1948 |
| I C B Dear Ed. | The Oxford Companion to the Second World War | OUP, Oxford 1995 |
| F Loraine Petre | The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914-1918 | John Murray, London 1925 |
| David Erskine | The Scots Guards 1919-1945 | William Clowes & Sons Ltd., London 1956 |
| Carel Birkby | The Saga of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment 1932-1950 | Hodder & Stroughton Ltd., Cape Town 1950 |
| Peter K A Digby | Pyramids and Poppies - 1st SA Infantry Brigade in Lybia, France and Flanders 1915-1919 | Ashanti Publishing, Rivonia 1993 |
| Brigadier C N Barclay | The London Scottish in the Second World War 1939 to 1945 | William Clowes &Sons Ltd., London 1952 |
| Various authors | The Life of A Regiment- The History of the Gordon Highlanders | In six volumes, The Medici Society, London, first volume 1901 |
| Shelford Bidwell | The Women's Royal Army Corps | Leo Cooper, London 1977 |
| Major John Ewing | The Royal Scots 1914-1919 | In two volumes, Oliver and Boyd, London 1925 |
| Graham Stewart and John Sheen | Tyneside Scottish - A History of the Tyneside Scottish Brigade raised in the North East in World War One | Pen and Sword Books, Barnsley 1999 |
| Major L L Gordon | British Battles & Medals | Spink & Son, London 1971 |
| Michael Armitage | The Royal Air Force - An Illustrated History | Arms and Armour Press, London 1995 |
| Leslie Hunt | Twenty-One Squadrons - The History of the Royal Auxiliary Airforce | Crecy Books, Somerton 1992 |
| Denis Richards | Royal Air Force 1939-1945 | In three volumes, HMSO, London 1953 |
| J R Hill Ed | The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy | OUP, Oxford 1995 |
| Patrick Delaforce | Monty's Highlanders - 51st Highland Division in World War Two | Tom Donovan, Brighton 1997 |
| Derek Wood, | Attack Warning Red - The Royal Observer Corps in the Defence of Britain 1925-1992 | Carmichael and Sweet Limited, Portsmouth 1992 |
| Simon Fowler | Army Records for Family Historians - Public Record Office Readers' Guide No. 2 | PRO, London 1992 |
| William Spencer | Records of the Militia and Volunteer Forces 1757-1945 - Public Record office Readers' Guide No. 3 | PRO, London 1997 |
| Simon Fowler and others | Army Service Records of the First World War | PRO, London 1996 |
| Garth Thomas | Records of The Royal Marines - PRO Readers' Guide No. 10 | PRO, London 1994 |
| Robert Sigmond, | Off at Last - An Illustrated History of the 7th Galloway Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers 1939-1945 | Veenman Drukkers, Ede 1997 |
| Wilfred I Smith | Code Word CANLOAN | Dundurn Press, Toronto 1992 |
| Patrick Delaforce | Marching to the Sound of Gunfire - North West Europe 1944-5 | Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud 1996 |
| David Bercuson | Battalion of Heroes - The Calgary Highlanders in World war II | Calgary Highlanders Regimental Funds Foundation, Calgary 1994 |
| Major W Steel Brownlie | The Proud Trooper - The History of the Ayrshire Earl of Carrick's Own Yeomanry | Collins, London 1964 |
| Terry Copp | No Price Too High - Canadians and the Second World War | McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Toronto 1996 |
| Roy Conyers Nesbit | The Strike Wings - Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons | HMSO, London 1995 |
| Major Michael Mitchell | Ducimus - The Regiments of the Canadian Infantry | Canadian War Museum, Ottawa 1992 |
| Patrick Mileham | The Yeomanry Regiments | Canongate Academic, Edinburgh 1985 |
| John Buchan | The History of The Royal Scots Fusiliers 1678 - 1918 | Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London 1925 |
| Colonel J C Kemp MC | The History of The Royal Scots Fusiliers 1919-1959 | Glasgow University Press, 1963 |
| Captain Stair Gillon | The KOSB in the Great War | Thomas Nelson & Sons ltd., London 1930 |
| Captain Hugh Gunning | Borderers in Battle - The War Story of The King's Own Scottish Borderers 1939-1945 | Martin's Printing, Berwick-upon-Tweed 1948 |
| Various authors | The History of the Cameronians Scottish Rifles, 26th and 90th | In four volumes, Vol 1, Gale &Polden Ltd., Aldershot 1957 |
| Lt. Colonel L B Oatts | Proud Heritage - The Story of The Highland Light Infantry |
In four volumes. Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London 1953 |
| P J R Mileham | Fighting Highlanders - The History of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders | Arms and Armour Press, London 1993 |
| Major the Hon. Ralph Pomeroy and others |
History of the Royal Scots Greys The Second Dragoons August 1914 - March 1919 1932 | |
| Lt. Colonel R M P Carver | Second to None - The Royal Scots Greys 1919 - 1945 | McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh 1954 |
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