The Great Scot

Robert Bruce was Scotland's greatest king ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under English occupation. When Bruce began his reign, his first battle was a calamitous loss. Yet steadily between 1307-1313 King Robert won battle after battle, shunning pitched medieval clashes, and fighting as a guerrilla force, a form of warfare which he, perhaps, invented, The war peaked in 1314 when King Robert faced a formidable English invasion. With brilliant tactics and resolute bravery the vastly outnumbered Scots defeated and routed the English knights, archers, and yeomen at the great and historical battle of Bannockburn. And that's only the first half of this epic tale of King Robert's long and event-filled life. The Great Scott is a novel filled with valour, treachery, journeys great and small, and people of every rank and station-all from the pages of Scottish history.