Blood on the Thistle: The Heartbreaking Story of the Cranston Family and Their Remarkable Sacrifice

Pearson, Stuart; Mitchell, Robert G.

ISBN 10 : 1784183342 ISBN 13 : 9781784183349

Editeur : John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifi ce on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days. This is the tale of how a once proud and aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Stuart Pearson, after many varied careers over decades in law enforcement, education, government, and business, has finally found his calling in writing. His first book "Bittersweet: The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century" was published to much critical acclaim, and was nominated for the New South Wales Premier s Prize for Literature in 2010. Bob Mitchell trained as a psychiatric nurse in the late 1960s, and is now retired from his position as Senior Lecturer (Mental Health) at Napier University, Edinburgh."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Blake Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784183342
• ISBN 13: 9781784183349
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 288