Scotch on the Rocks by Arthur Swinson

Scotch on the Rocks by Arthur Swinson

This is the true story behind Sit Compton Mackenzie's Whisky Galore. On the night of the 4th February 1941 the SS Politician founders off the coast of South Uist. The salvage - nearly a quarter of a million bottles of duty free whisky and hard currency- areworth, today, ninety million pounds. And to islanders across the Hebrides it's theirs for the taking, hiding, drinking or selling.

Vastly entertaining THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD

The greatest party in the history of the Hebrides. THE SCOTSMAN

An absorbing tale. SIR COMPTON MACKENZIE

Arthur Swinson was born in 1916 in St Albans, Hertfordshire. He attended St Albans School and later trained as an army officer cadet at Sandhurst Military College, before joining the Worcestershire Regiment. During the Second World War he served in the infantry and the Indian army, seeing action in India, Assam, Burma and Malaya.

After the war he joined the BBC to become a senior producer of documentaries. He left the BBC in 1961 to pursue a career as a full time freelance writer, with 300 plays for television, radio and theatre, and over 30 books of fiction and non-fiction to his name. Writing for Television is a standard work on the subject. Other works range from The Great Air Race to The Orchid King, a biography of the leading orchid hunter Frederick Sander. Swinson became a well known military historian, and his book Kohima, an account of the battle in which he took part, is widely regarded as one of the best works on the Second World War.

He died in 1970, leaving a widow and three children.

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ISBN 13	9781905222094
ISBN 10	1905222092
Titel	Scotch on the Rocks
Autor	Arthur Swinson
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Luath Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-10-01
Seitenanzahl	186
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.