The Black Douglas (1 Viewer)

[Harrytheheid]

You'll love "Quartered Safe Out Here". Black Ajax is interesting and pretty good, and you will enjoy one of the characters whom you've briefly met before later in his life - lets just say he's a close relative of one of mutual favorites, and leave it at that. The complete McAuslan is my favorite GMF - I've probably read it 50 times. One of the prides of my book collection is a 2nd printing hard cover of the first of these, "The General Danced at Dawn".

Yeah, I'm aware of who makes an appearance in Black Ajax. There's a write-up about it on the GMF website.

I'm presently reading;
"The Black Douglas" by some guy called David R. Ross.
Granted it concerns the life and times of Sir James Douglas, King Robert the Bruce's right-hand-man along with Randolph Earl of Moray during the 1st Scottish War of Independence; but it's obvious that the author has been influenced to a disproportionate degree by that abominable piece of Hollywood trash "Bravefart", to the point where the book is simply an anti-English diatribe. Not what I expected - and very disappointing. Could have been written for all the other gullible morons who think that Mel's twee version of the life of Wallace is gospel.
For anyone interested in books concerning this period of Scottish history, (albiet historical fiction - but still much more accurate than Randall Wallace's & Mel's garbage), I can whole-heartedly recommend;
"The Wallace"
"The Bruce Trilogy"
Both by Nigel Tranter and both available from Amazon.

Regards
H

 

[Oldboy]

Master Heid,Thanks a mill for laying into Mel's abomination.Ditto for the book recommendations.Can't help wondering what you think of Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs ? I finally got around to it a month or so ago and loved every minute.o.

 

[Harrytheheid]

Master Heid,Thanks a mill for laying into Mel's abomination.Ditto for the book recommendations.Can't help wondering what you think of Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs ? I finally got around to it a month or so ago and loved every minute.o.

I was unaware of the book you mention OB.
I'll have a hunt for it next time I'm in the UK.
Thanks for the heads-up.

H