The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
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), who robbed and murdered in the name of family: the famous clans (or grains)-like Elliot, Armstrong, Charlton, and Robson-romanticized by Sir Walter Scott. In The Steel Bonnets, George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels, and himself a borderer, tells the fascinating and bloody story of the reivers, their…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60239-265-6
- EAN: 9781602392656
- Produktnummer: 28220349
- Verlag: Skyhorse Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.8 cm 490 g
- Gewicht: 490
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Geroge MacDonneld Fraser was the author of the famous Flashman Papers series and the Private McAuslan stories. He worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition to his novels he also wrote numerous films, most notably The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, and the James Bond film Octopussy. George Macdonald Fraser died in January 2008 at the age of eighty-two.
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