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  • 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 Long Way Home

    The Other Great Escape

    by John McCallum ...
    The first-hand account of three Scotsmen and their dramatic escape from Nazi Germany's Stalag VIIIB prison camp during World War II.At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John McCallum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up communication lines as Europe once more hurtled towards war. Wounded and captured ... Read more

    $17.99 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

  • 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

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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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  • With the Argylls

    A Soldier's Memoir

    by Ray Ward ...
    An unforgettable memoir of fighting with the renowned Scottish infantry regiment during World War II. "The real stuff of history . . . a classic." —Trevor Royle, author of Facing the BearWhen Ray Ward died in 1999, his sons discovered an old and dusty manuscript in an Afrika Korps ammunition box in the cellar of the family home in Glasgow. These papers contained a collection of their father's ... Read more

    $14.99 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 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

  • 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

    $25.99 CAD

  • 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

  • War Report

    The War Correspondent's View of Battle from the Crimea to the Falklands

    by Trevor Royle ...
    Whenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspondents, a type of journalists whom General Wolseley called 'the newly invented curse to armies'. This study of the war correspondent's view of war traces the story from Russell's pioneering work for The Times in the Crimea to the assorted press, radio ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD