Blood On The Thistle The Heartbreaking Story Of The Cranston Family And Their Remarkable Sacrifice
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Author | : Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell |
Publisher | : Kings Road Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1784180750 |
Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the effects of the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe.Out of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifice on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days.This is the tale of how a once proud and aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family finally begin to be drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.
Author | : Bob Mitchell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2015-04-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781459695160 |
Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard - working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifi ce on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days. This is the tale of how a once proud and aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.
Author | : Eponymous Rox |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2012-06-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781477668412 |
The police are calling them accidents. They say young men are simply drinking too much and meeting a tragic end in icy lakes and rivers. But the public thinks something else has been going on in America's northland since 1997. They're calling the sudden disappearances of hundreds of college-age men mysterious. They're calling the drownings murder. [Special Black & White Illustrated Discounted Edition]
Author | : John Uri Lloyd |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2020-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. It blends passages on the nature of physical phenomena, such as gravity and volcanoes, with spiritualist speculation and adventure-story elements (like traversing a landscape of giant mushrooms).
Author | : Frederick John Niven |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"The Staff at Simson's" is Frederick Niven's most famous Scottish novel. It tells an absorbing story of class-divided Glasgow life. Filled with entertaining characters and a gripping plot, this book makes a delightful read.
Author | : Alistair Norwich Tayler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Milton Hodson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Freemasonry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jack P. Greene |
Publisher | : Liberty Fund |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780865978997 |
Exploring the Bounds of Liberty is an ideal introduction to the rich, hitherto only lightly examined literature produced in and about the British colonies between 1680 and 1770. It provides easy access to key but little-discussed political writings, illuminating important political debates in the early-modern British empire and giving crucial context for much better-known tracts of the American Revolution.
Author | : James Fairbairn |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 2012-02-03 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1781502455 |
In two volumes. Volume I: 601 pages including a 522 page index of family names, in alphabetical order, describing the crest of every name listed and where to find an illustration in the volume of plates; a glossary of heraldic terms and other words; and nearly seventy pages of family mottoes with translations of those in Latin, French or other foreign languages. Volume II: contains 130 plates, each depicting 15 family crests in b&w and a further 18 plates illustrating regalia, insignia, crowns, flags, monograms, arms of principal cities etc. also in b&w. There is a key to all the plates which, in the case of the crests, shows which families have which crest.
Author | : Henling Thomas Wade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Boats and boating |
ISBN | : |