3 edition of The Steel Bonnets: Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers found in the catalog.
Published 1989-03-09 by in England .
Written in
Edition Notes
| Author | by George MacDonald Fraser. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| Category | England |
| Group | Book |
| The Steel Bonnets: Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers | |
| Number of Pages | 428 |
| Format | eBook, Taschenbuch |
| ID Numbers | |
| SKU | 0002727463 |
| ISBN | 9780002727464 |
| EAN | 9780002727464 |
From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supremeon the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud andterror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life-and a way ofsurvival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the ''steelbonnets,'' named for their flashy helmets), who robbed and murdered inthe name of family: the famous clans (or ''grains'')-like Elliot,Armstrong, Charlton, and Robson-romanticized by Sir Walter Scott. In TheSteel Bonnets, George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashmannovels, and himself a borderer, tells the fascinating and bloody storyof the reivers, their rise to power as ferocious soldiers of horse, andtheir surprisingly sudden fall from grace.
