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The Folio Society (2003).
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Massacre - 'evocative and powerful' - Sunday Telegraph
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LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
I have waggishly remarked that "Glencoe proves that the British have no talent for atrocity" because it wasn't an efficient massacre. Only forty men and thirty-eight women and children died that night. There were more refugees than corpses created that night. "It filled the pubs of Scotland with
But it was a ghastly act, that perhaps came about due to more miss-information than malice. But trust was betrayed, and this remains a book that can be studied with profit by students of relationships between colonial powers and their aboriginals. A very good book.
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sole survivors for a generation", has also been said. The actual Soldiers that were involved were other Scots provided by Lord Argyll, not Englishmen.But it was a ghastly act, that perhaps came about due to more miss-information than malice. But trust was betrayed, and this remains a book that can be studied with profit by students of relationships between colonial powers and their aboriginals. A very good book.
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LibraryThing member mbmackay
Useful history of the 1692 massacre.
Read in Samoa July 2002
Read in Samoa July 2002
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A study of the causes and effects of the Glencoe massacre in 1692, when British soldiers and members of the Campbell Clan attacked and killed members of the MacDonald Clan who lived in Glencoe, a remote glen in the west highlands of Scotland.
In boxed set of the Highland Trilogy about the fall of the clan system in Scotland.
In boxed set of the Highland Trilogy about the fall of the clan system in Scotland.