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Polly, The True Story Behind Whiskey Galore
by Roger Hutchinson
- HISTORY
- 1998
- PAPER
- 155 PAGES
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A history of the famous wreck of the S.S. Politician in the outer Hebrides in 1941. The ship was full of whiskey, the locals seized it, and the subsequent wrangling pitted the Hebrideans against the ship's owners. It's the event that is the basis for the novel and film Whisky Galore.
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