For the Good of the Cause: How Flora MacDonald Rescued Bonnie Prince Charlie After Culloden - Couverture souple

Damer, Sean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190553762X ISBN 13 : 9781905537624

Editeur : Strident Publishing Limited, 2014

Synopsis

For the Good of the Cause explodes the romanticism of The Skye Boat Song in a bold fictionalisation of the events that inspired it. It gives an insight into why people follow leaders...sometimes regardless of their flaws. Young Flora MacDonald is no Jacobite rebel. Nor is she an admirer of the Jacobites' fugitive leader, Bonnie Prince Charlie, despite her father's involvement with the cause. When the dishevelled prince turns up at her family home, hunted by government troops following the failure of the 1745 uprising, Flora witnesses his darker side. Despite this, she agrees to help him try to escape the pursuing soldiers...and summary execution. During the escape attempt, Flora comes to understand what fuelled the Jacobite rebellion...and what ultimately led to its disastrous conclusion at the Battle of Culloden.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Seán Damer is a sociologist by training and a writer by inclination. In the former capacity, he has written extensively on aspects of Clydeside social history, including the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike, the Red Clyde, the 1920s Clydebank Rent Strike, Glasgow gangs and the development of Glasgow council housing. His books include From Moorepark to Wine Alley: The Rise and Fall of a Glasgow Housing Scheme (1989), and Glasgow: Going for a Song (1990.) He is a regular book reviewer for the journal Scottish Affairs. He is also interested in the modern history and culture of Crete, including the War and Resistance, and with Ian Frazer, co-authored the book: On the Run: ANZAC Escape and Evasion in Enemy-Occupied Crete (2006.) In the latter capacity, Seán has had short stories published in the Glasgow Herald and Scotland on Sunday and broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 4. He has also written radio drama: his 4-episode adaptation of the Rosemary Sutcliffe novel The Eagle of the Ninth was first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1996, and has been re-broadcast numerous times. His series of five talks on the people of the villages in the White Mountains of western Crete, Wild Mountains, Wild People, was broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1993. Seán also writes screenplays, and won the Radio Times New Television Drama Award in 1992; he is currently working on Catharsis, a script for a thriller set in Cyprus. He is also writing Glasgow Green, a novel about an Irish Catholic family that migrates from the Rosses of Co. Donegal to Glasgow in 1912. For the Good of the Cause is his first published novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Strident Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190553762X
• ISBN 13: 9781905537624
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible