Title: Retired Terrorist
Description: An autobiography: a few years after WWII ends, a young Scottish political activist becomes a friend of a Scottish National Party executive who arranges for him to be  involved in a raid on an Army Cadets' armoury. When other raiders are being sought by Scottish police he becomes an exile in Occupied Germany.  There the US Army employs him and he is able to emigrate to California, taking up educational opportunities there, while maintaining an interest in promoting the independence movement in Scotland. He even returnsto Scotland briefly - as an American tourist! - to attempt to recover the 'Stone of Destiny').  Later, he finds that 'organized nationalists' are too busy to be interested in the history represented and he writes nostalgically from his retreat in NZ.
Subjects: Scottish independence, Scottish National Party, political exile, Stone of Destiny.
Places: Glasgow, California, New Zealand
People: Robert Curran, 1950s National Secretary of the Scottish National Party.
Time periods: 1944 - 2004