The Steel Bonnets

The Steel Bonnets
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 541
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ISBN-10 : 9781628730135
ISBN-13 : 1628730137
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Book Synopsis The Steel Bonnets by : George MacDonald Fraser

Download or read book The Steel Bonnets written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 rise to power as ferocious soldiers of horse, and their surprisingly sudden fall from grace.


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