Trevor Royle: Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire [2017] paperback TRANS The more he saw

The more he saw

and further tragedy followed in 1822

but one who remains almost unknown away from it

in his mountain village at the foot of the Pyrenees

bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan

Trevor Royle: Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire [2017] paperback TRANS The more he sawThe Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion. In Trevor Royle's vivid and evocative