Full name: The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

Author: George MacDonald Fraser Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780002727464 0002727463

"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. Similar books: Scotland by Magnus Magnusson Scotland by Jenny Wormald Glencoe by John Prebble The Highland Clearances by John Prebble Scotland by Michael Lynch The Lion in the North by John Prebble The Scottish Nation by T. M. Devine A History of the Scottish People: 1560 - 1830 by T. C. Smout How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman William Wallace by James Mackay A History of Scotland by Rosalind Mitchison The Hollywood History of the World by George MacDonald Fraser Culloden by John Prebble A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton Scotland's Empire by T. M. Devine Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Persian Fire by Tom Holland Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown