"While I have taken time to detail in some measure what was endured by the people of Glasgow and other communities ... under the assault of the Luftwaffe in the spring of 1941, this book is ... centred on Clydebank, the people of Clydebank, and what befell them as a social and human experience in the Blitz. It is neither a military history nor a detailed and technical account of what the German air force ... actually did in the skies over central Scotland ... early pages in the book ... describ[e] the environment of the town, which was ... destroyed ... in March 1941 ... I have also devoted some space to the rise of the Scottish Labour movement ... which had some bearing on her preparations for an aerial assault and, perhaps, still more, why there has been so little recognition of her ordeal in a wider Britain ... The townscape and its 1941 community were lost to Scotland for always"--Preface.