To the Yetts o' Hell

<p>As Fenella Wilson points out in her Introduction to this collection of Neil Munro's writings on war the theme is represented in each aspect of his career as a writer - in his fiction journalism and poetry. </p><p>A number of the short stories here including two Para Handy tales were published Munro's lifetime as was his introduction to Fred Farrell's 1920 The 51st Division War Sketches and some of the Poems. </p><p>What has not previously 'seen the light of day' since The Great War are the reports which Munro wrote as a war correspondent as a civilian and later in uniform in 1914 1917 and 1918. </p><p>They are vivid personal accounts from the Western Front widely published in a range of newspapers of the time. Stories of Scottish regiments - in kilts with their Pipers - abound. </p><p>They cushion but don't diminish the reality of everyday life both for soldiers on all sides in the conflict and for the local population amid the 'havoc' of the battlefields; 'the filthy job of human slaughter'.</p><p><br></p>