CULLODEN

 John Prebble, Penguin paperback 1988.

 For years the rose-ringed legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the black memory of Butcher Cumberland have blossomed side by side. Here, from contemporary memoirs, letters, newspapers, and regimental order books, John Prebble reconstructs the Common Man’s version of the moorland battle and the months of repression and brutality that followed it. Their bellies empty, their leaders at odds, the ground ill-chosen, the Highlanders were made sitting targets for the Royal Artillery at Culloden. This is the story of what ordinary men and women suffered in the rebellion for a cause that was never theirs.

Apart from some slight outer edge rubbing and very slight light tinting to the page edges (both extremely light), and a red ink loop at the top of the fep, presumably some kind of seller’s symbol, the book is in very good condition