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Whence Came a Prince , the latest novel in the series, publishes in March On the personal side, Liz is married to Bill Higgs, Ph. Liz and Bill share their 19th-century farmhouse in Louisville, KY, with their two teenagers, Matthew and Lillian, and too many cats.
For more about Liz, visit her Web site: www. Fair Is the Rose explores living, breathing people with heart-wrenching conflicts and one woman with a faith that shines.
The reader is transported. Be sure to have a box of tissues close at hand. With excellent writing and a keen understanding of human nature, Liz Curtis Higgs delivers a first-rate, fascinating historical saga. As big and bold a story as the Galloway landscape where it takes place and the hearts of the people who inhabit it.
What a guid buik! I couldn't help but yearn for all three to find lasting love and happiness. The next installment can't get here fast enough to suit me. I was transported back in time to my ancestral Scotland and relished every moment. An exceptional work! What would you like to know about this product? Please enter your name, your email and your question regarding the product in the fields below, and we'll answer you in the next hours.
By: Liz Curtis Higgs. Three of the battles belong to the medieval period and Scotland's fight to establish and maintain its independence from England - Wallace's victory at Stirling Bridge in , Bruce's even greater victory at Bannockburn in and then, at the end of the period, the crushing defeat at Pinkie in Three more battles belong to the bloody civil wars of the seventeenth century - Montrose's great victory at Kilsyth in August , Cromwell's triumph at the Battle of Dunbar in and the short, bloody action at Inverkeithing that followed.
Finally for the Jacobite period the trilogy covers Sherriffmuir , Prestonpans and the conclusive encounter at Falkirk By skillful use of maps, diagrams and photographs the author explains the complex, sometimes puzzling sequence of events that make these encounters so fascinating.
He provides a detailed tour of each battleground as it appears to the visitor in the present day and rediscovers the lanes and by-ways tramped by soldiers hundreds of years ago. Three of the battles belong to the medieval period and Scotland's fight to establish and maintain its independence from England—Wallace's victory at Stirling Bridge in , Bruce's even greater victory at Bannockburn in and then, at the end of the period, the crushing defeat at Pinkie in Three more battles belong to the bloody civil wars of the seventeenth century—Montrose's great victory at Kilsyth in August , Cromwell's triumph at the Battle of Dunbar in and the short, bloody action at Inverkeithing that followed.
Out of this confused and turbulent period came the more settled and familiar history of the region. The Highlands and islands were controlled by the kings of Norway or by Norse or Norse-Celtic warlords, who not only resisted Scottish royal authority but on occasion seemed likely to overthrow it.
The narrative is structured around a number of battles — Skitten Moor, Torfness, Tankerness, Renfrew, Mam Garvia, Clairdon and Dalrigh — which illustrate phases of the conflict and reveal the strategies and tactics of the rival chieftains. At the same time he considers to what extent the fighting methods of the time survived into the post-medieval period. Its brutal repercussions, however, endured for months and years, its legacy for centuries.
Paul O'Keeffe follows the Jacobite army, from its initial victories over Hanoverian troops at Prestonpans, Clifton and Falkirk to their calamitous defeat on the field of Culloden. He explores the battle's aftermath which claimed the lives, not only of helpless wounded summarily executed and fugitives cut down by pursuing dragoons, but also of civilians slaughtered by vengeful government patrols as they 'pacified' the Highlands.
He chronicles the wild, nationwide celebration greeting news of the government victory, the London stage catering to patriotic fervour with new songs like 'God Save the King', popular musical theatre, and operas by Gluck and Handel. Meanwhile, the public was also treated to the grimmer spectacle of Jacobite prisoners, tried for high treason, paying for their participation on block and gibbet throughout the country.
Many others - granted 'the King's mercy' - suffered the lingering fate of forced labour on fever-ridden plantations in the West Indies and Virginia. O'Keeffe reveals the unexpected consequences of the rising - mapping the Scottish Highlands to aid military subjugation would eventually lead to the foundation of the Ordnance Survey - and traces the later careers of the battle's protagonists: the Duke of Cumberland's transformation from idolised national hero to discredited 'butcher'; Charles Edward Stuart's from 'Bonny Prince' to embittered alcoholic invalid.
While in the long term the doomed Stuart cause acquired an aura of romanticism, the Jacobite Rising of remains one of the most bloody and divisive conflicts in British domestic history, which resonates to this day. Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation.
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