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Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
List Price: $17.95 • This book is on our reading list • This book is on 8 myArmoury member lists
Edition: Paperback Other editions available: Library Binding, Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover 83 third-party copies available from: $0.01 (As of May 23, 04:45 PM) 
Other items of interest: • The Candlemass Road • Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II • The Complete McAuslan • The Pyrates: A Swashbuckling Comic Novel by the Creator of Flashman • The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers  Product Description: "If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive him," it was said of the plunders, raiders, and outlaws who terrorized the Anglo-Scottish Border for over 300 years. Theirs is an almost forgotten chapter of British history, preserved largely in folktales and ballads. It is the story of the notorious raiding families--Armstrongs, Elliots, Grahams, Johnstones, Maxwells, Scotts, Kerrs, Nixons, and others--of the outlaw bands and broken men, and the fierce battles of English and Scottish armies across the Marches. The Steel Bonnets tells their true story in its historical context-- how the reivers ran their raids and operated their system of blackmail and terrorism, and how the March Wardens, enforcing the unique Border law, fought the great lawless community. A superb work of scholarship and a spellbinding narrative. George MacDonald Fraser is the celebrated author of the Flashman novels, The Candlemass Road, The Pyrates, and the Private McAuslan stories. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: George MacDonald Fraser Recording label: Harpercollins Pub Ltd Publishers: Harpercollins Pub Ltd Manufacturer: Harpercollins Pub Ltd EAN: 9780002727464 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0002727463 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 428 Publication date: 1998-03 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) Data cached: May 23, 2013 04:45 PM (GMT -8 hours) |
