SCOTLAND HISTORY

Battle of Bannockburn 1314 by Aryeh S. Nusbacher

Bannockburn 1314 by Peter Armstrong

Publisher's Synopsis
Bannockburn was the climax of the career of King Robert the Bruce. In 1307 King Edward I of England, 'The Hammer of the Scots' and nemesis of William Wallace, died and his son, Edward II, was not from the same mould. Idle and apathetic, he allowed the Scots the chance to recover from the grievous punishment inflicted upon them. By 1314 Bruce had captured every major English-held castle bar Stirling and Edward II took an army north to subdue the Scots. Pete Armstrong's account of this pivotal campaign culminates at the decisive battle of Bannockburn that finally won Scotland her independence.

From Bannockburn to Flodden: Wallace, Bruce, & the Heroes of Medieval Scotland by Sir Walter Scott

Publisher's Synopsis
From Bannockburn to Flodden, the first volume in Sir Walter Scott's Popularized history of his beloved Scotland, recounts the medieval history of his native land. In these stories he tells of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, and other leaders of the period, as well as the foundations of the Stewart monarchy. These stories proved to the the most intimate, most accessible, and most dramatic of all the tales Scott ever presented to his readers. From William Wallace and Robert the Bruce to John Knox and Mary Queen of Scots, from the subjugation of Rob Roy and the rising of the Jacobites to the crusade of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the quest of the Duke of Cumberland, these Tales from a Scottish Grandfather covered the entire romantic story of Scotland as a grandfather would tell it to his grandchildren, for Scott specifically addressed them to his ten-year-old grandson. Scott focuses all of his narrative power for the sake of love - love of family, love of place, and love of legacy. This history of Scotland is the richer for it.