GLENCOE & CULLODEN (2 Books, Set)

This is a matching set of two historical books by the Canadian-English journalist John Prebble (1951-2001). Prebble was the preeminent authority on Scottish history. He wrote Culloden in 1962 and, in 1966, Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre. In 1996, the Folio Society published the two books together, with commissioned covers and wood engravings by the English artist Harry Brockway. The books were best-sellers and the copies I have are from the third printing.

Cloth covers with Brockway's art. Lovely creamy paper. No shelfwear. They have not been read and are in mint condition.

The stories:

Glencoe

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.'

This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders.

Culloden

The book begins in the rain at five o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 1746, when the Royal Army marched out of Nairn to fight the clans on Culloden Moor. This is the story of the battle and of what followed, the destruction of a way of life and the persecution of a people. It is the story not of Bonnie Prince Charlie but of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as "Common Men." The book recalls them by name and action, presenting the battle as it was for them, describing their life as fugitives in the glens or as prisoners in the gaols, their transportation to the Virginias or their deaths on the gallows.

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