Dr Michelle Moffat is a historian of war and society, and a research associate at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her previous publications include ‘Scotland’s fighting fields’: the mobilisation of workers in rural Scotland during the Second World War, Rural History, 33:2 (2022): 231-249; and with Alison Loveridge, Rebecca Duell and Julie Abbari, ‘Night Landscapes: A Challenge to World Heritage Protocols’, Landscape Review, 15:1 (2014): 64-75. Michelle completed her doctoral studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand and her award-winning doctorate examined Scottish life and society during the Second World War. She is currently researching dissent and discontent in wartime Britain. This is her first monograph.
A path-breaking and thorough study of Scotland during World War 2 which is a major contribution to twentieth-century Scottish history and to the documentation of Britain's experience at war. -- Sir Thomas Martin Devine, University of Edinburgh This interesting and readable book could serve as a classroom text, a scholarly tour guide of Scotland, and a first-class explanation of how Scotland experienced WW II. -- S. M. McDonald, Bentley University * CHOICE Magazine * a well-written and thoroughly researched account of Scottish wartime society, addressing several important and under-explored areas in modern Scottish history. -- Sarah Moxey, The Open University * The Scottish Historical Review *