No Shame in Fear: Alex C Maclean (presented by Donald S Murray)
2nd November 2016 - Wednesday
7pm, Islands’ Book Trust Launch
Alex C. Maclean was born on the Isle of Tiree in 1923, and lived there until the age of fourteen, when he went to sea. This is a rare first-hand account of the WW2 Atlantic convoys and the devastation of war. Stalked by German U-boats, cast adrift in a lifeboat, it also tells of the difficulties of the post-war period, in building a decent family life and coming to terms with his own history back on Tiree.