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Culloden
John Prebble
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Description for Culloden
Paperback. This text, using contemporary memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, reconstructs the common man's version of the Moorland Battle and the repression and brutality that followed it for the highlanders. It challenges the rose-tinted legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Culloden. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8pp b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 268.
This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as 'Common Men'. There is little in this book about Bonnie Prince Charlie and other principals of the last Jacobite Rising of 1745. Culloden recalls them by name and action, presenting the battle as it was for them, describing their life as fugitives in the glens or as prisoners in the gaols and hulks, their transportation to the Virginias or their deaths on the gallows at Kennington Common. The book begins in the rain ... Read more
This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as 'Common Men'. There is little in this book about Bonnie Prince Charlie and other principals of the last Jacobite Rising of 1745. Culloden recalls them by name and action, presenting the battle as it was for them, describing their life as fugitives in the glens or as prisoners in the gaols and hulks, their transportation to the Virginias or their deaths on the gallows at Kennington Common. The book begins in the rain ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pimlico
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712668200
SKU
V9780712668200
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About John Prebble
John Prebble was born in the UK in 1915 but spent his boyhood in Canada. He became a journalist in 1934 and went on to become an historian, novelist, film-writer and the author of several highly praised plays and dramatised documentaries for BBC TV and Radio. He became interested in Culloden when he was a boy in a predominantly Scottish ... Read more
Reviews for Culloden
[Culloden] is romantic and tragic, and helped me, as a London boy, to develop a love of Scotland that lasted my whole life.
David Aaronovitch
The Week
Prebble and Scotland down the years have become as inseparable as oatcakes and whisky. He has...succeeded in giving the Scots a fresh awareness of their past.
Daily Telegraph
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David Aaronovitch
The Week
Prebble and Scotland down the years have become as inseparable as oatcakes and whisky. He has...succeeded in giving the Scots a fresh awareness of their past.
Daily Telegraph
... Read more