| Entry Text: | HUTCHINSON, Roger. Polly: The True Story behind Whisky Galore. 144p., bibliog., illus. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1990. ISBN: 1840180714.
In 1941 the s.s. Politician ran aground in the Sound of Eriskay with a cargo which included nearly a quarter of a million bottles of whisky. Later celebrated in book and film by Compton Mackenzie as 'Whisky Galore', this is the true and strange tale of what really happened. |
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