"A remarkably successful book on a fascinating subject, well organized and well written." --Time's Literary Supplement 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), clan-loyal raiders, freebooters, plunderers, and rustlers who robbed and murdered in ...
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"A remarkably successful book on a fascinating subject, well organized and well written." --Time's Literary Supplement 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), clan-loyal raiders, freebooters, plunderers, and rustlers who robbed and murdered in the name of family: the famous clans--like Elliot, Armstrong, Charlton, and Robson--romanticized by Sir Walter Scott. They were the last opponents to the Acts of Union of 1707, and fought fiercely and fancifully to the end. In The Steel Bonnets , George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels and himself a borderer, takes us back through three centuries of conflict, telling the fascinating and bloody story of the reivers. He relates their rise to power as ferocious soldiers on horseback, their important roles in the battles at Flodden and Solway Moss, and their surprisingly sudden fall from grace. The Steel Bonnets is a superb work of serious history and scholarship that is as irresistibly compelling as any novel. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Add this copy of The Steel Bonnets: Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border to cart. $44.28, good condition, Sold by 84 Charing Cross Road Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cambridge, CAMBS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1971 by Barrie and Jenkins.
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Good Condition in Fair jacket. 9780214653087. Good/Fair 1st printing 1971 hardback, price-clipped DJ. Shop label to lower rear of jacket, which has corner chips and loss, some tears and creasing with tape repairs internally to jacket. Book itself is bright and unmarked. First edition of a classic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN: 0214653080. ISBN/EAN: 9780214653087. The book is available to view in-person at our Cambridge hub. The photos provided are of the actual book for sale, further condition-specific photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 094646.
Add this copy of The Steel Bonnets: the Story of the Anglo-Scottish to cart. $64.54, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Barrie & Jenkins.
Add this copy of The Steel Bonnets. the Story of the Anglo-Scottish to cart. $55.50, like new condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1972 by Barrie & Jenkins.
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F in VG- jacket. F/VG-. 8vo. original brown boards gilt in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & a little frayed, closed tears to rear panel); pp. [xii (last blank)], 404, with 18 illustrations & 3 maps (inc. endpapers & folding sheet). A very good copy.
Add this copy of The Steel Bonnets: the Story of the Anglo-Scottish to cart. $82.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1972 by Barrie & Jenkins.
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Near Fine. Second printing. Small quarto. 404pp. Illustrated with plates and a folding map in the rear. Gift inscription on half-title else near fine, lacking the dust jacket. Fraser's first nonfiction work, a history of the reivers (or murdering robbers) who terrorized the Scottish-English borderlands in the 1500s.
Add this copy of The Steel Bonnets. the Story of the Anglo-Scottish to cart. $117.50, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 1971 by Barrie & Jenkins.
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F- in VG+ jacket. F-/VG+. 8vo. original green boards (a trifle rubbed) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & frayed at extremities, spine a little sunned); pp. [xii (last blank)], 404, with 18 illustrations & 3 maps (inc. endpapers & folding sheet). A near fine copy.
Add this copy of The Steel Bonnets: the Story of the Anglo-Scottish to cart. $69.00, very good condition, Sold by Edmonton Book Store rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Edmonton, AB, CANADA, published 1971 by Barrie and Jenkins.
All the romance of the Borders considered soberly in light of geographical and historical circumstances. The book drains out the 'fun' even though many anecdotes and ballad fragments remind one of the mythic elements that survive from this period. This is a serious book that dovetails nicely with "Albion's Seed" as a way of understanding the consequences of centuries of raiding and extortion and slaughter.
bob3289
Aug 16, 2007
A great read!!
A fascinating and detailed account of the border area of Scotland and England, especially interesting to any of the descendants of those families. I thoroughly enjoyed it and intend to read it again.
