River of Fire

“An unflinching record of Scotland’s greatest human disaster in modern history”—the Luftwaffe air raids on the industrial town of Clydebank during WWII ( The Herald ). Vibrating with endeavors for Britain’s effort against the might of Nazi Germany, Clydebank was—in hindsight—an obvious target for the attentions of the Luftwaffe. When, on the evening of 13 March 1941, the authorities first detected that Clydebank was “on beam”—targeted by the primitive radio-guidance system of the German bombers—