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Based on memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, a reconstruction of the battle of Culloden and the events which followed, seen through the eyes of the common man. Reveals the hardships and deprivations men and women suffered during the rebellion and provides insight into the acts of brutality which occurred.
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John Prebble was born in the UK in 1915 but spent his boyhood in a predominantly Scottish township in Canada. He became a journalist, turned novelist, film-maker, and historian, specializing in Scottish subject matter. His recent books include Mutiny and John Prebble’s Scotland. He died in January 2001.
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Culloden
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Penguin Random House, 1961
ISBN 10: 0436386011
ISBN 13: 9780436386015
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Condizione: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Codice articolo 19141481-20
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Culloden
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hardcover. Condizione: Good. Secker & Warburg, London [Published date: 1961, reprinted 1973]. Hardcover, 367 pp; black and white illustrations, map; 22 cm. In good condition with good dust jacket. Red cloth with black and silver spine label. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Light soiling to edges of text block. Previous owner's gift inscription in ink on front free end paper. Pages lightly toned but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket, designed by Bernie Higton after an 18th-century engraving of the Battle of Culloden, has a few 1" or less nicks and tears and creasing along edges, with light overall scuffing as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not ex-library. [From jacket flaps] Culloden is the story of a battle and of what followed, the destruction of a way of life and the persecution of a people. There is little in this book about Bonnie Prince Charlie and other principals of the last Jacobite Rising of 1745. 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". 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 at five o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, April 16, 1746, when the Royal Army marched out of Nairn to fight the clans on Culloden Moor. It is not a partisan book, its feeling is for the "Common Men" on both sides - John Grant charging with Clan Chatten and seeing the white gaiters of the British infantry suddenly as the east wind lifted the cannon smoke, and Private Andrew Taylor in red coat waiting for Clan Chatten to reach him, likening them to "a troop of hungry wolves". Culloden reminds us, too, that many of the men who harried the glens as ruthlessly as the Nazis in Occupied Europe were in fact Scots themselves. It recalls the fact that many men in Prince Charles' army had been forced to join him. It shows that a British foot-soldier's wish for a sup of brandy on a cold morning before battle is as much a reality as a Prince's pretensions to a throne. The detail for the story told in Culloden has come from regimental Order Books and manuals, from contemporary newspapers and magazines, from the letters and memoirs of soldiers and officers, eye-witness accounts of atrocity and persecution, and the personal stories of the victims themselves, like young Ranald Macdonald, aged seven, skulking in the hills above his burning home. Culloden is the story not of a Prince, but of a people. Contents include: The March from Nairn; Drummossie Moor; Inverness; Fort Augustus; The Prisoners; The Sharp Rock; The Last Victory; Appendix; Acknowledgements; Index. Codice articolo 20250909003
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Secker and Warburg, London, 1986
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition later printing printing octavo hardback 367 pp. Illustrated Pages edges tanned otherwise Very Good + condition in Very good price-clipped dust jacket No inscriptions. Codice articolo 084746
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Culloden
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Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1997
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Secker and Warburg, London, 1963
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 505 grams. Codice articolo 010175
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Culloden
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Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, London, 1981
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Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Reprint. This fine unread copy is bound in cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Based on memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, a reconstruction of the battle of Culloden and the events which followed, seen through the eyes of the common man. Reveals the hardships and deprivations men and women suffered during the rebellion and provides insight into the acts of brutality which occurred. Ref UU3. Codice articolo 016550
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Secker & Warburg, London
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[0-436-38601-1] 1981. (Hardcover) Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. 367pp. Illustrations, acknowledgements, index. There is a light vertical crease the length of the spine. "Culloden is the story of a battle and of what followed, the destruction of a way of life and the persecution of a people. There is little in this book about Bonnie Prince Charlie and other principals of the last Jacobite Rising of 1745. This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion". Book about Rebellion. Time Period 1745 & 18th Century. Locale: Culloden; England; Scotland. (History--England, Battle of Culloden, Letters, Military, Newspapers, Social History). Codice articolo 152087
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