Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 60. Chapters: Scottish autobiographers, Scottish diarists, James Boswell, Robert Michael Ballantyne, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, A. J. Cronin, Craig Ferguson, Jack Bruce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frankie Boyle, Janey Godley, Rikki Fulton, Compton Mackenzie, Hugh MacDiarmid, George MacDonald Fraser, Dennis Canavan, George Mackay Brown, Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Willie Gallacher, W. D. M. Bell, Grace Elliott, David Daiches, Stuart Christie, Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Lucy Bethia Walford, Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott, Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Alastair Dunnett, George Patterson, Alistair Urquhart, Ernest Albert Savage, Eric Linklater, Douglas Sutherland, Liza Campbell, George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, Harry McShane, J. A. Hunter, James Melville, Elma Napier, Jimmy Boyle, Candia McWilliam, Return to the Lost Planet, Molly Weir, Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, Angus MacVicar, James Melville of Halhill, Sir James McGrigor, 1st Baronet, Marjorie Fleming, Fionn MacColla, Idilia Dubb, Jamie Andrew, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Andrew Clark, Duncan Williamson, Joseph Mitchell, Joe Tarnowski, Christian Watt, David Moysie, James Burns, William Towrie Cutt. Excerpt: Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG, CBE, DSO, (6 May 1880 - 22 September 1959) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War. Ironside joined the Royal Artillery in 1899, and served throughout the Boer War, followed by a brief period spying on the German colonial forces in South-West Africa. Returning to regular duty, he served on the staff of a Regular Army division during the first two years of the First World War, before being appointed as the chief of staff to the newly raised 4th Canadian Division in 1916. In 1918 he was given command of a brigad...