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Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertakes a detailed examination of the strategy, tactics and politics involved on both sides, together with a technical critique of the weaponry employed by both attackers and defenders. Extensive figures on Scottish civilian casualties have been included, together with a full list of all Scottish locations that were bombed and details of German aircraft losses. From the relentless hit-and-run attacks up the east coast of Scotland to the calamities of Clydebank and Greenock, Luftwaffe over Scotland not only offers a detailed analysis of exactly what happened, but also provides fresh new evidence and claims regarding many aspects of the war in Scotland - some of them specifically at odds with the more traditional British portrayals of World War Two. Some of the controversial issues raised include Why was there no 'Phoney War' in Scotland? Did the Battle of Britain begin over Orkney in April, 1940?Why were more people killed in Glasgow than at the target of Clydebank? Why were the Greenock raids such a disastrous failure for the Luftwaffe?Why did Hitler personally ensure Aberdeen became Scotland's last raided city? Why was the last air battle in Europe fought off the Aberdeenshire coast? Luftwaffe over Scotland draws on a wide variety of sources, such as official archives, articles, letters and personal testimonies, including information about German Luftwaffe operations, to paint the first full and accurate picture of the dramatic and often brutal air attacks that took place in almost every village, town and city in Scotland during World War Two.From a detailed analysis of the attacking German forces, to an explanation of the strengths and weaknesses of the air defences around Scotland, this is an important and long-overdue contribution to the full understanding of this dramatic period in the history of the modern Scottish nation. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Europe / Ireland; Travel / Europe / Great Britain; ... Read more

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This major reference work, first published in 1946, is a fully documented alphabetical listing of over 8,000 Scottish family and personal names and is an invaluable source of information for genealogists, historians and families interested in their Scottish ancestry. ... Read more

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THE book on Scottish surnames
Dr. Black's book is the most complete book on Scottish surnames available today.Yes, there are no doubt some names not to be found in it but they are few and far between!I have worn out two copies of this book and working my way through the third, but I will replace it when necessary at whatever cost.

Another Genealogy Gem
George Fraser Black, Ph.D., compiled this listing of Scottish surnames from public and other records of Scotland throughout the centuries.An impressive and detailed bibliography lists his sources.The listing includes all the variations of spelling for each name, the date when it appeared and the location, and some insights or explanation, where appropriate.The 838 page volume includes a Glossary of Obsolete or Uncommon Scots Words. This is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in Scottish genealogy. It can quickly aid the person who is unsure whether his or her ancestry is Irish or Scottish.I highly recommend this book and am proud to have it in my library. ... Read more

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The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. Edinburgh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. Michael Fry, who has lived and worked there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political and social history, and painting a vivid portrait of a city - that like Stevenson's "Dr Jekyll" - is both dark and light, both 'Auld Reekie' and 'Athens of the North'. The reviews include: 'Impressive ...in the style of Peter Ackroyd's history of London' - Magnus Linklator, "Spectator"; and, 'No one interested in the history of Edinburgh, and indeed Scotland, should be without it' - Allan Massie, "Scotsman". ... Read more

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King James' treatise was written at a period of dramatic change in Scottish witchcraft and after a period of intense prosecution in Scotland. It was republished in England in the year of James' accession to the English throne. This book offers a modernized, glossed and fully annotated edition of the "Daemonologie", the pamphlet "Newes from Scotland" and of manuscript material related to the trials of the North Berwick witches not available previously on print or only in early 19th-century editions. A substantial introduction reviews the importance of the trials in the last decade of the 16th century in Scotland, places them in the context of Renaissance thought and culture, and locates the King's treatise in the context of the contemporary demonological discussion to which the "Daemonologie" provided a useful introduction. Full annotations are provided. ... Read more

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"She confesses that the Devil appears like a foal or stag, ..."
Not much I can say that the product description doesn't. I just wanted to add my 5 stars to this excellent and superior effort. Be warned, this does not read as a popular history, but is rather a thoroughly academic investigation of the source materials in regard to the North Berwick Witch Trials whereby King James VI defended the royal houses of Denmark and Scotland from attack by conspiring witches. Fascinating stuff, but not recommended for those without prior foundation in the history of Scottish witchcraft persecutions. To that end, Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland is an equally excellent introduction. Enjoy!

Had to write a paper for school
This book was bought so I could write a term paper for school.
it's well written, good to read and has a lot of history in it.If you are a history buff this book would be a good one for your collection. ... Read more

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From the Highlands and the Lowlands to Glasgow, the annual Edinburgh Festival, and the Loch Ness monster, Scotland offers plenty to do and see. If you want to see it all — with or without the kilt — Scotland For Dummies, Third Edition, covers it all, including:

• Four fun-filled itineraries for your perfect trip
• Five day-trips to the country from Edinburgh and Glasgow
• The best Scottish golf courses
• Great Scottish pubs
• A guide to the Hebrides, and the Shetland and Orkney Islands

Like every For Dummies travel guide, Scotland For Dummies, Third Edition includes:

• Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
• What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip
• The best hotels and restaurants for every budget
• Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages

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Lots of good info
Whenever we travel to a new country we try to get 3 guide books:The Eyewitness Guide, the "For Dummies" Guide, & the Rick Steves' Guide.
They all have differing focus & information.Combined together you get a very comprehensive overview of where you'll be going so you can plan your time optimally.

love it
Love the country love the book.The best books for travel by far, great series.

Good beginner's guide
We're planning a trip for next fall, and this has been a great beginner's guide for us.I like how the segments are broken down by area of Scotland and type of activity you're looking for.It also has a section on the best time to travel and other helpful hints.Another favorite part is the recommended trips and itineraries if you have 1 week, 2 weeks or longer.I do wish there were more pictures.Apart from that, it looks like a great deal of time has gone into cataloguing favorite sites and suggesting restaurants, shopping areas and museums.

pretty good
This book is helpful.It gives you a feel for the neighborhoods of Edinburgh.Restaurant recommendations were very helpful. Maps helped.And it helped us get to where we had to go
in Scotland.No photos, though.

Good book
Good book and very informative for planning a trip to Scotland (especially for someone who's never been). ... Read more

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Abandoned by a rogue

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Not to my liking
I won't go over the plot of this novel since several others have already done so. I found very little to like in this tale for the following reasons:

1.Charlotte - The heroine is rude, arrogant, unforgiving, unbending, prideful and condescending.I might also add obtuse.Even though she was only married for a week and hadn't seen her husband in 5 years, surely you would recognize an imposter later.I haven't seen high school friends in years but I remember them.It's not as if Charlotte is 90 years old and suffering from dementia.Please!

2. The plot is unbelievable - Dixon, the hero decides to step into his cousin's shoes and quite suddenly finds himself in love with this stuck up, waspish female.Furthermore, Dixon has no problem deceiving her.I wasn't sure if he was just mean spirited or playing a game.

3. The mystery of the castle - That felt like it was thrown in for filler.The castle has some sort of treasure with a strange riddle attached to it.

4. George, the absent husband - I don't want to spoil the ending but it was kind of weird and spooky and provided a totally unromantic setting for the truth about Dixon's identity to surface.

5. Inconsistency of character - Had a hard time believing that Charlotte suddenly becomes a wanton but then can turn cold an unforgiving a few pages later.

Could have been better
Charlotte is abandoned by her husband and when she goes to find him in his ancestry home, he turns out to not be there either. Therefore she decides to stay. Then five years later enters Dixon, the cousin who she mistakes for her husband. Romance insues...a little

Like other people I had a hard time really enjoying the heroine. She took the fun out of the book for me by acting dumb. We're constantly told how smart she is and how bookish she is. She's the headmistress of a girl's school for crying aloud! BUT for some particular reason she lacks the shrudness to see that Dixon is not her husband George...even though she admits he looks different and acts completely different. Also the whole remembering whole phrases from books was really annoying and felt like filler where the author couldn't come up with anything useful to write.

The Lie was a useless plot device that couldn't even hold up the story or create sufficent attraction for the "forbidden love". If you like mistaken identities I'm asking you to hold back on reading this book but if you must, get one of the cheaper copies. The author could have done without mistaking Dixon for his cousin George, the suspence subplot could have been way better, creating a larger consperacy around the castle, the characters could have been better then the boring male tortured by his concience and the straitlaced scorned female stereotypes, I could have done without the Edification Society which bordered on rediculous (but was different from the male hero showing the virgin heroine how to "recieve pleasure," and most of all the romance could have been better. I cared more about what went one between Maisie and Matthew then I did with Charlotte and Dixon.

Like I said, if Mistaken Identities, Old castle settings, Scotland, romance suspense are your go to romances of choice...skip this book, and if you can't, get it from the library and save some money/ a tree.

A DIFFERENT RANNEY TWIST
Other reviewers have related the story highlights, so I would like to address the style of this book.As a long-time Ranney fan who has read all her books, I want potential readers to know the quality of the great author they have chosen to read.

This book is a little different for Ranney.She includes a broader cast of characters, a comedic factor, a more outspoken female main character, and a few more "graphic" words than usual.Although the story does not possess Ranney's signature darkness, Ranney's powerful narrative style creates a compelling tale.

Balfurin became so real through Ranney's description.One can picture the construction, the nooks and crannies, the elegance.Descriptions of the countryside make the reader want to reach out and touch it or take a deep breath of the country air.

A different "touch" from Ranney is the comedic factor.Although Lady Eleanor serves as the devilish-angel on Charlotte's shoulder which motivates Charlotte to move foward in her exploration of her own sensuality, I found the comedic factor distracting from an otherwise sensitive story, perhaps because the comedy seemed to come at an inappropriate time and seemed to stop the story in its natural progression.

That said, anything by Karen Ranney is always on my reading list.I liked this story.I loved Dixon.Ranney always provides chracters with sincerity, depth, and sensitivity.

Not one good thing about it
Absolutely terrible.One of the worst romance books I've ever read.The characters were unbelievable, the plot was contrived, dull dialogue, and a "big lie" that was ridiculously inexcusable.Don't waste your time!

Ok read...could've been better
This was just an ok story for me.I found myself struggling to get through it some...thought it was a little slow going.I also struggled with the whole idea of the reason for Dixon's deception.Just couldn't get it..wants to apologize for cousin, right wrongs... by lying and eventually causing more pain??Premise just wasn't sound.Believable romance between characters gets points though. Many subplots a little odd because really didn't seem to fit. ... Read more

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WRONG AUTHOR!!!
This is the book by MICHAEL Lynch (I checked the ISBN). I don't know why AMAZON has it listed the wrong way.

But it's a very good and useful text, accurate and well-researched. ... Read more

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Eyewitness Account of the Scots Highlanders
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a prolific writer, among his novels were Rob Roy (1818), Ivanhoe (1819), and The Talisman (1825).This is a modern edition of the non-fiction book he published on the Scots Highlanders, detailing the unique aspects of their culture and social values in the hard years following the '45.

It is almost refreshing for me, largely used to reading books written in an age that pretends to be fair and respectful to everybody, to see his harshly biased account of these 'tribal savages'-yet, at the same time, he also records many of their good features (politeness, civility, and generosity being surprisingly high on the list) and thus lends further credibility to his book.

Using Clan MacGregor, the 'Children of the Mist' as his primary source, Scott paints a fascinating account of the Highlanders that reads like high adventure, and uses lots of particular incidents he had personally witnessed as examples to prove his points, making this an excellent, and rather unique source on the Highlanders for the modern reader-perhaps as accurate of one as we will ever have. ... Read more

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From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict.
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British Library

T150734

With an index and final errata leaf.

London : printed for T. Cadell; A. Donaldson; J. Balfour, in Edinburgh; and R. Taylor, in Berwick, 1776. viii,706,[22]p. ; 4° ... Read more

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A fantastic collection of the myriad myths and mysteries of Scotland’s past, from unsolved murders to ghosts, ghoulies, and long–forgotten prophecies. ... Read more

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This volume examines Scotland's experience of and reaction to European expansion between c. 1600-1800. Although Scotland lacked an independent empire in the seventeenth century, it gained unfettered access to the global empire of England after 1707. The volume argues that, beneath this seemingly stark discontinuity, there lay considerable continuity. Using a series of case studies on Scottish governors serving in the empires of Denmark-Norway, Weden, and their eighteenth century Russian and British equivalents, it highlights the previously underestimated chronological and geographic extent of Scotland's engagement in European expansion. It concludes that a blend of informal networks of kinship and local association complemented the official status of Scottish governors and produced a relatively distinctive and effective strategy for participating in imperialism. ... Read more

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Basing his work strongly on documentary and archaeological sources, Alfred Smyth covers traditional topics in a thoroughly unconventional manner. Winner of the 1985 Spring Book Award for Literature (Scottish Arts Council) ... Read more

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Highly recommended
This book won the 1985 Spring Book Award for Literature from the Scottish Arts Council, and one can see why. A wide-ranging, enthusiastic and scholarly work, it covers a great deal of ground with a surprising amount of detail for its size. Although some of the archaeological conclusions have changed in the intervening thirty years, this is still a good introduction to the period and good value for money. Topics include: Roman Britain, the Picts, St. Columba, Adomnan, Vikings, the orgins of medieval Scotland, and the conquest of the southern uplands.

The author shows an impressive ability to look at the larger picture while not losing sight of details, an ability which allows him to combine seeming isolated facts into interesting combinations. Whether or not you agree with all of his conclusions, you will find many that are thought-provoking. An example is his dating of the final collapse of the British kingdom of Rheged by the series of entries in the Irish Annals of Ulster regarding the presence of roving bands of British warriors in Ireland between 682 and 709. Highly recommended.

The best summary of early Scottish history I have read.
My B.A. degree dealt with the growth and development of Scottish Gaelic society and culture, and I used no book more than this one.It is challenging and accessible, and provides many reference materials such as chronological and geaneological tables.The bibilography is also outstanding.The book has been described as a 'galloping, rip-roaring' work and I wholly agree.Its greatest strength is its presentation of detailed arguements in a way which both makes a coherent point and invites further study.More than a survey, but not a specialist-only text by any means.Its counterpart for Irish history would be "The Course of Irish History" edited by T.W. Moody and F.X. Martin (Dublin: Mercier) 1994.Both are invaluable. ... Read more

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Enhanced with simple maps
Written, printed and published in Scotland, The Wee Guide To Scotland: A Concise History With 1250 Heritage Sties To Visit is a sueprbly organized travel guide which is as easy to use as it is an intrinsically fascinating survey of some 5,000 years of Scottish history ranging from prehistoric times to the present. From neolithic settlements, burial cairns, standing stones and circles, to medieval forts, brochs, and castles, to renaissance mansions, gardens, and cathedrals, to twentieth century museums and galleries, The Wee Guide To Scotland is enhanced with simple maps, information on locations, visitor facilities, opening times, and contact details. If you are planning a vacation or business trip to Scotland, then begin your itinerary preparations with a careful reading of The Wee Guide To Scotland! ... Read more

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The "Intermediate History" series is aimed at Intermediate 1 and 2 students. The emphasis in each book is on the source-based approach required, with a range of activities including recall, evaluation, deriving data from sources and extended response questions. Text and activities are differentiated to give full support to Intermediate 1 students. This title looks at immigrants and exiles in Scotland from 1830 to 1940. ... Read more

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Historical account of the clan MacGregor ... Read more