The Steel Bonnets
| Author | : George MacDonald Fraser |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2012-06-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0007474288 |
From the author of the famous ‘Flashman Papers’ and the ‘Private McAuslan’ stories.
The Steel Bonnets
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The Steel Bonnets
| Author | : George MacDonald Fraser |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 541 |
| Release | : 2008-07-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1628730137 |
From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life—and a way of survival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the "steel bonnets," named for their flashy helmets), who robbed and murdered in the name of family: the famous clans (or "grains")—like Elliot, Armstrong, Charlton, and Robson—romanticized by Sir Walter Scott. In The Steel Bonnets, George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels, and himself a borderer, tells the fascinating and bloody story of the reivers, their rise to power as ferocious soldiers of horse, and their surprisingly sudden fall from grace.
The Reivers
| Author | : Alistair Moffat |
| Publisher | : Birlinn |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2011-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 085790115X |
From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and Scotland, Borderers suffered at the hands of marauding armies, who ravaged the land, destroying crops, slaughtering cattle, burning settlements and killing indiscriminately. Forced by extreme circumstances, many Borderers took to reiving to ensure the survival of their families and communities, and for the best part of 300 years, countless raiding parties made their way over the border. The story of the Reivers is one of survival, stealth, treachery, ingenuity and deceit, expertly brought to life in Alistair Moffat's acclaimed book.
The Candlemass Road
| Author | : George MacDonald Fraser |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2013-12-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0007502044 |
This is a beautiful, moving tale from the bestselling author of the "Flashman Papers".
Border Fury
| Author | : John Sadler |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 650 |
| Release | : 2013-11-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317865286 |
Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603. It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of tactics, arms, armour and military logistics during the period. All the key personalities involved are profiled and the typology of each battle site is examined in detail with the author providing several new interpretations that differ radically from those that have previously been understood.
Border Reiver 1513–1603
| Author | : Keith Durham |
| Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011-03-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781849081931 |
Stretching from the North Sea to the Solway Firth, the Border region has a sharply diverse landscape and was a battleground for over 300 years as the English and Scottish monarchs encouraged their subjects to conduct raids across their respective borders. This Warrior title will detail how this narrow strip of land influenced the Borderer's way of life in times of war. Covering every aspect of militant life, from the choice of weapons and armor to the building of fortified houses, this book gives the readers a chance to understand what it must have been like to live life in a late-medieval war zone.
The Border Reivers
| Author | : Keith Durham |
| Publisher | : Osprey Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781855325609 |
From the 13th century until the early 17th century the Border Marches of England and Scotland were torn by a vicious and almost continuous cycle of raid, reprisal and blood feud. The Border Reiver was a professional cattle thief, a guerilla soldier skilled at raiding, tracking and ambush and a well organised "gangster". Including eight superb full page colour plates by Angus McBride, as well as numerous other illustrations, this text by Keith Durham explores the colourful History of these remarkable people.
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
| Author | : Graham Robb |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2018-06-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0393285332 |
"[An] entertaining work of geographical sleuthing.…Surprises abound." —The New Yorker An oft-overlooked region lies at the heart of British national history: the Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land once served as a buffer between England and Scotland. It was once the bloodiest region in the country, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and James V. After most of its population was slaughtered or deported, it became the last part of Great Britain to be brought under the control of the state. Today, its boundaries have vanished from the map and are matters of myth and generational memories. In The Debatable Land, historian Graham Robb recovers the history of this ancient borderland in an exquisite tale that spans Roman, Medieval, and present-day Britain. Rich in detail and epic in scope, The Debatable Land provides a crucial, missing piece in the puzzle of British history.
The Borders
| Author | : Alistair Moffat |
| Publisher | : Birlinn |
| Total Pages | : 686 |
| Release | : 2011-08-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857901141 |
In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation's history and moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary people for hundreds of years. The hunter-gatherers who first penetrated the virgin interior, the Celtic warlords, the Romans, the Northumbrians and the Reivers, who dominated the Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over 300 years, have all had their part to play in the constantly evolving life of the area. It is the people of a place that make its history and Alistair Moffat's book is a testament to those who have made the Borders their home, and who have created the traditions, myths and romance that define it so strongly.
The Complete McAuslan
| Author | : George MacDonald Fraser |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 661 |
| Release | : 2009-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1628730374 |
George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army are collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division's answer to the Pekin Man) first demonstrated his unfitness for service in The General Danced at Dawn. He continued his disorderly advance, losing, soiling or destroying his equipment, through the pages of McAuslan in the Rough. The final volume, The Sheikh and the Dustbin, pursues the career of the great incompetent as he shambles across North African and Scotland, swinging his right arm in time with his right leg and tripping over his untied laces. His admirers know him as court-martial defendant, ghost-catcher, star-crossed lover and golf caddie extraordinary. Whether map-reading his erratic way through the Sahara by night or confronting Arab rioters, McAuslan's talent for catastrophe is guaranteed. Now, the inimitable McAuslan stories are collected together in one glorious volume.
