Fo Sgàil a' Swastika (Under the Shadow of the Swastika) le Dòmhnall Iain MacDhòmhnaill

There have been countless books about the war but relatively few by private soldiers - far less one who could take a poet's perspective on the experience. Donald John MacDonald (1919-1986) is now recognised as one of Gaeldom's most important bards. His vivid account of the grim privation of the prisoner of war camps resounds with the spirit, homour and sense of comradeship of men who refused to be cowed by their captors. It is told with all the verve and immediacy of a natural raconteur - but then MacDonald was descended from a line of traditional bards and storytellers.