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  • A Time of Tyrants

    Scotland and the Second World War

    by Trevor Royle ...
    Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial operations against the enemy and for training regular and specialist SOE and commando forces. Scotland also became a social melting pot with the arrival ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Orde Wingate

    A Man of Genius, 1903–1944

    by Trevor Royle ...
    "A superb biography" of the controversial British Army officer who lead the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade against the Japanese in Burma during World War II ( HistoryOfWar.org).Winston Churchill described Wingate as a man of genius who might well have become a man of destiny. Tragically, he died in a jungle aircraft crash in 1944.Like his famous kinsman Lawrence of Arabia, Wingate was renowned for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Flowers of the Forest

    Scotland and the First World War

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The author of Culloden details the effects of World War I on Scotland.On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as "the workshop of the Empire." Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kitchener Enigma

    The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916

    by Trevor Royle ...
    In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical archaeologist, his attachment to the Arab cause and on the infamous ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Royal Scots

    A Concise History

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The Royal Scots are Scotland's oldest infantry regiment, with a tradition that stretches back to 1633. This first concise history of the regiment is based largely on the recollections of several generations of Royal Scots - men like Private McBane, who carried his three-year-old son into battle at Malplaquet, and Private Begbie, the youngest soldier to serve in the First World War. These first ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Britain's Lost Regiments

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The history of the British Army is really the story of its regiments and the men who served in them. From the very beginning they formed the backbone of a singular institution that is itself a reflection of the way the people of Britain view themselves and their collective past.Beginning with the Glorious "revolution" of 1660 and the return to the throne of King Charles II, it was a time when ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Culloden

    Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Facing the Bear

    Scotland and the Cold War

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The author of Culloden explores Scotland's history during the Cold War.Between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism, confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As part of NATO's response, Scotland played a key role in the alliance's forward maritime defense strategy, aimed at containing the Soviet threat from naval and air forces. During this period, 10 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gordon Highlanders

    A Concise History

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The Gordons recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment's character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Nairn. It was raised in 1794 by an aristocratic landowner, the Duke of Gordon, whose wife played a major role in attracting recruits by riding through her husband's estates and offering a guinea and a kiss to each man who enlisted. Originally ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • In Flanders Fields

    Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War

    by Trevor Royle ...
    This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered together well-known writers like John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie, as well as poets like Joseph Lee and Roderick Watson Kerr, who found their true voices fighting in a war to end wars. There is also a substantial ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Black Watch

    A Concise History

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or 'watch', to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish Highlands.Instantly recognisable due to the famous red hackle cap badge and the traditional dark blue and green government tartan kilt from which it got its name, The Black Watch was renowned as one of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD