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HIGHLAND CLANSMAN 1689 1746 [Buy it!] | Reid Stuart | USD 10.59 (Sun May 26 15:14:51 2024) | Biblio | Diversity Books, IOBA | Oxford, England: Osprey Publishing, Date: 2001. 64pp., 12 pages of colour-art illustrations, plus b/white art, line-drawn and photographic illustrations and maps, throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated (a section from David Marier's 'An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745', Royal Collection) card wrapper negligibly scuffed only. A stand-alone title in the Osprey 'Warrior' series, #21. "For nearly sixty years the clans of Highland Scotland proved to be an almost constant thorn in the side of a series of British monarchs. Fiercely independent, the clans comprised an agricultural peasantry dominated by a warrior aristocracy . . . The author examines in detail the society that produced these fierce fighters and the tactics they used in battle including the feared 'Highland Charge'." Includes Bibliography. Book weight approx. 220g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo (large). Reprint.. Softcover. Very Good +. Illus. by Angus McBride. 2001. Osprey Publishing ISBN 1855326604 9781855326606 [AU] |