THE 51ST (HIGHLAND) DIVISION IN THE GREAT WAR: Engine of Destruction

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Scotland's 51st (Highland) Division emerges from memory as a testament to fortitude, adaptability, and resilience amid unprecedented wartime trials. Chronicles how the Division arrived in France in May 1915 and took part in a limited (and unsuccessful) attack in French Flanders in June 1915. Thereafter it fought on the Somme at High Wood and Beaumont-Hamel, at the Battle of Arras, at Third Ypres, Cambrai, faced two of the German spring offensives of 1918, and was then involved in the successful series of allied offensives that ended the war. Aims to cast a more objective light on its activities and to challenge its post war critics. Makes full use of official records and first hand accounts, including those provided by descendants with previously unpublished family records or illustrations.