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£16.99
Robert Craufurd: Wellington's Wayward Martinet
Ian Fletcher - Hardback - Pen & Sword Military
To most students of the Peninsular War the name Robert Craufurd usually evokes images of a battle-hardened martinet, flogging his men across Portugal and Spain, driving them hard. However, it is only half of the picture of this most complex character and it is the other half that has never before been revealed.
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Red Sky At Night
John Barrington - Paperback - Luath
'Red Sky At Night' is an account of a shepherd's year around Loch Katrine. The text brings to life the landscape, the widlife, the farm animals and the people who inhabit the author's vista.
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Rogue Warrior Of The SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend
Martin Dillon - Paperback - Mainstream
More than fifty years after his death, Lt Col Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. This text presents a rounded portrait of a man who was one of the most distinctive combatants of the campaigns in the Western Desert and Europe.
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Rob Roy Macgregor
Nigel G. Tranter - Paperback - Neil Wilson
Rob Roy MacGregor was mythologised by Sir Walter Scott but was very much a fact in the Trossachs of Scotland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Scott's romantic image is, however, far from the rogue which Nigel Tranter protrays in this work.
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Robert Owen And His Legacy
- Paperback - University of Wales Press
The contributors to this volume include not only many of the recognized experts on the life, work and legacy of Owen, but also work from younger scholars or scholars coming to the field afresh.
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Robert The Bruce: Our Most Valient Prince, King And Lord
Colm McNamee - Paperback - Birlinn
The life of Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. This book aims to encourage popular reassessment of Bruce to reveal his enormous significance in the history not just of Scotland, but of England and Ireland as well.
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Red Dust Road
Jackie Kay - Paperback - Picador
In this revelatory and redemptive book Jackie Kay tells the story of her own life. It is a book about belonging and beliefs, strangers and family, biology and destiny and what makes us who we are.
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Robert Burns: Bard Of Scotland
Bronwen Hosie - Paperback - Argyll
Robert Burns, born in 1759 and who died young in 1796, is the national bard of Scotland. His poems and songs are performed and sung the world over to this day.
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Red Dust Road
Jackie Kay - Hardback - Picador
In this revelatory and redemptive book Jackie Kay tells the story of her own life. It is a book about belonging and beliefs, strangers and family, biology and destiny and what makes us who we are.
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Recollections Of A Racketeer: Smuggling Hash And Cash Around The World
Patrick Alexander - Paperback - Mainstream
Patrick Lane's obsession with drugs began in his early teens. 19th-century French literature introduced him to a world of hashish, opium and absinthe, which he saw as a way of escaping his boring suburban English existence. This title is a rollicking and at times hilarious tale of a life lived on the wrong side of the law.