Trevor Royle: 25 books
Culloden
Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
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...
by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A vigorous and authoritative history of last major battle fought between Scottish and English forces, ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire.
The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major...
Orde Wingate
A Man of Genius 1903-1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Winston Churchill described Wingate as a ‘man of genius who might well have become a man of destiny’. Tragically, he died in an jungle aircraft crash in 1944.
Like his famous kinsman Lawrence of Arabia, Wingate was renowned for being an unorthodox soldier, inclined to reject received patterns...
A Time of Tyrants
Scotland and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
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...
Lancaster Against York
The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
In this sweeping history, Trevor Royle details one of the bloodiest episodes in British history. The prize was the crown of England, and the players were the rival houses of Lancaster and York. The dynastic quarrel threatened the collapse of the monarchy as a succession of weak rulers failed to deal...
by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle
The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in...
by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
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...
Kitchener Enigma
The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Royle revises Kitchener's latterday image to reveal a warm-hearted, tender, and caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East, and his attachment to the Arab cause, and on the infamous struggle...
by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women...
Montgomery
Lessons in Leadership from the Soldier's General
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Bernard Law Montgomery was a dedicated battlefield tactician, though a controversial one. In North Africa in 1942, he commanded the Eighth Army to a great triumph against Rommel at El Alamein, which Churchill hailed as the beginning of the end of the war. During the planning stages for the invasion...
National Service
The Best Years of Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 2 million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed forces during the period of National Service, which began after the Second World War and was phased out by 1963. Aged just 18, these individuals, many of whom had never left their hometowns before, were put in uniform to serve their...
The King's Own Scottish Borderers
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The King's Own Scottish Borderers is one of only two Scottish regiments never to have been amalgamated until it joined forces with The Royal Scots to form the 1st battalion of The Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006. It is also unusual in that it lost its Scottish status between 1782 and 1887 when...
The Royal Scots
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
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...
Queen's Own Highlanders
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Created in 1961 as a result of the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the Seaforth Highlanders, the Queen's Own Highlanders embody the history and traditions of some of Scotland's oldest Highland regiments. Two great Highland families - Cameron of Lochdarroch and Mackenzie of...
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