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"A remarkably successful book on a fascinating subject, well organized and well written." Time's Literary Supplement
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), clan-loyal raiders, freebooters, plunderers, and rustlers who robbed and murdered in the name of family: the famous clans like Elliot, Armstrong, Charlton, and Robson romanticized by Sir Walter Scott. They were the last opponents to the Acts of Union of 1707, and fought fiercely and fancifully to the end.
In The Steel Bonnets, George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels and himself a borderer, takes us back through three centuries of conflict, telling the fascinating and bloody story of the reivers. He relates their rise to power as ferocious soldiers on horseback, their important roles in the battles at Flodden and Solway Moss, and their surprisingly sudden fall from grace. The Steel Bonnets is a superb work of serious history and scholarship that is as irresistibly compelling as any novel.
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"A remarkably successful book on a fascinating subject, well organized and well written."--Time's Literary Supplement
About the Author
The author of the famous Flashman series and the Private McAuslan stories,
worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition to his novels he has also written numerous films, most notably
,
, and the James Bond film
. He is also the author of
about his World War II service in Burma, and
and
about the Anglo-Scottish wars. He passed away at the age of eighty-two in 2008.
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- PublisherVintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0002172615
- ISBN 13 9780002172615
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages404
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small stain to front board. Foxing to edge. Pages unmarked. xi, 404 p., 24 cm. "The story of the Reivers dates from the 14th century and continued through into the late 17th century. It concerns the border between the two sovereign countries of England and Scotland. In those days, this Border displayed all of the characteristics of a frontier, lacking law and order. Cattle rustling, feuding, murder, arson and pillaging were all common occurrences. It was a time when people owed their tribal or clan loyalty to their blood relatives or families. And it was common for these families to straddle the Border. The Reivers were the product of the constant English-Scottish wars that would often reduce the Border area to a wasteland. The continuing threat of renewed conflict offered little incentive to arable farming.". Seller Inventory # 2204060016
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