John MacLeod

John MacLeod has worked in newspapers since graduating from Edinburgh University, including as a columnist and writer-at-large for The Scotsman and The Herald. From 2002 he has written a column for the Scottish Daily Mail. He is the author of River of Fire: The Clydebank Blitz (2010)

Carnage on the Clyde: A WWII cover up

by John MacLeod | 18 Mar 14

When the small Scottish shipbuilding town of Clydebank was flattened during one of the most destructive bombing raids of World War II, officials took extraordinary measures to suppress the details. John Macleod reports for the spring 2014 issue of Index on Censorship magazine