Since previous reviewers have praised this book, I'll begin with its major failing. It is surprising that Cormack's Protestant Action - and in Bowd's own words, PA "was the closest Scotland got to a mass fascistic movement" - is mentioned only in the passing. Now it is true that PA is well-covered in other books, but those are rather more dry, academic works (take that Tom Gallagher!) while this book appears to have been intended as a general survey for a mass readership.
