mobi |eng | 2011-08-21 | Author:John MacLeod

8 ‘A PICTURE OF HEART-RENDING TRAGEDY …’ He was John Bowman; he was a young soldier from Clydebank, and he had – this mid-March weekend in 1941 – just won ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-08 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

Five The Knights The knight is the last piece to place on the chessboard, for knights, as we think of them, in shining armor, were unknown in the North in ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:David I. Woodland

Much is made about the supposed antagonism that exists between the uniform and CID branches. To some extent this is understandable and their two functions are so different; the one ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Peter Armstrong [Armstrong, Peter]

Note: I have calculated the numbers of the Scottish army from the minimum number of men that would be needed to cover half a mile of front, allowing each a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edward Cowan

9 The English Cult of Wallace and the Blending of Nineteenth-Century Britain Colin Kidd In today’s Scotland most invocations of the name of William Wallace are directed towards nationalist ends ...

epub | | 2011-01-23 | Author:George MacDonald Fraser

XXVI Armstrongs in action In the circumstances, it was not surprising that the Armstrongs began to assume the proportions of a national menace to England, and foremost among them was ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Lockhart, Robert Bruce

CHAPTER 8 The Walkers My walk should be a jig. FOR OUR next whisky magnate we must leave Perthshire and go to Ayrshire. It is a county of soft climate ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Arthur Herman

But the Scots and Scotch Irish laity loved it, and it became the hallmark of Southern—and American—religion from then until the present. It also forged a link between the Presbyterian ...

epub |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:David Stevenson

15 The Central Powers’ Last Throw, Autumn 1917–Summer 1918 In autumn 1917 the Central Powers regained the initiative. Their counterattack against the Kerensky offensive initiated a reversal of fortunes comparable ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Chris Bambery

ELEVEN The Great Depression: Suffering and Resistance Another day thus upon the mountain And great Scotland under the doom of beasts Her thousands of poor exploited Beguiled to a laughing ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:John Sadler

The Scots had thought themselves secured against the approach of their enemies from the opposite side of the Till, by the depth and bad fords of that river, through a ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir

So how did Darnley die? The plot to kill him was masterminded by Maitland and Moray, Maitland being the active partner, Moray the passive one but the ultimate beneficiary. Their ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Graham, Roderick [Graham, Roderick]

epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Yonge, Charlotte M. [Yonge, Charlotte M.]

CHAPTER XXII. TUTBURY James VI. again cruelly tore his mother's heart and dashed her hopes by an unfeeling letter, in which he declared her incapable of being treated with, since ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-07 | Author:Harris, Tim [Harris, Tim]