KINTYRE ANTIQUARIAN AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
PRESS RELEASE
Low and sensibly priced at just £5 a copy
Reasoning that more people than ever either have their own computers, or can
get access to somebody else's and very much aware of the fact that the price of
many good reference books deters people from buying them, The Kintyre
Antiquarian and Natural History Society has taken the innovative and bold step
of publishing the text of "KINTYRE AT WAR 1939-1945" on a CD rather than
publish it expensively in book form - Pop the disc into a PC computer and open
up the Microsoft 'Word' file to scroll the book's pages or, after carefully
reading up the introduction at the start of the file, stock up with ink
cartridges and paper and print the 440-page long book out for yourself - You
can then either keep the pages in a loose-leaf file or get the book bound at
your local print shop - You don't even need to print out the whole book, just
the pages and sections that interest you !
The book isn't just about the 'goings-on' in Kintyre during The Second World War
but indeed covers everything from the time when Hitler came to power, in 1933,
right through to 1946 and the Nuremberg war trials - Here then is the story of
how war came to Campbeltown and Kintyre and here too are the things they never
properly told you at school, how the war began and who had what to fight with
when the war did start, Hitler's speech declaring war on America, the complete
German and Japanese Surrender Documents and the complete 1946 VE-Day programme
listing all the forces and now long-forgotten regiments that took part in the
official march-past.
Importantly, especially for those who have struggled with German dictionaries,
there is a 60-page long collection of glossaries focusing on German military and
naval terms and abbreviations and for that alone the disc will be of great
interest students and historians alike - The disc, priced low and sensibly at
just £5 a copy, offers excellent value for money and covers ground that often
escapes the attention of national historians - Even if you haven't got a
computer, the disc is worth buying for its unusual and colourful cover pictures
of The Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse.
The Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society,
13 Saddell Street, Campbeltown, Argyll PA28 6DN
