Bonnie Prince Charlie

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This authoritative biography—pub-lished to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Bonnie Prince Charlie—throws new light on the life and character of the notori-ously charismatic Prince on whom the hopes and dreams of the Jacobites were first raised and then dashed. Vividly portrayed accounts of his hitherto little-known love affair with his cousin Louise de Montbazon, his adventures in France and Italy, his valiant attempts to restore his family to the British throne, and the bloody battles of the 1745 Rising, which culminated in Culloden, succeed in bringing this legendary figure to surprising life.
The chance discovery in an old deed box of a unique relie that directly linked his family with the Prince and the Rising fired Sir Fitzroy Maclean's imagination. Düring two decades of research into contempo-rary accounts, he followed in the Prince's footsteps from Frascati to the Isle of Eriskay, from Glen Corradale to Essex Street in London and to the Place des Vosges... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This authoritative biography—pub-lished to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Bonnie Prince Charlie—throws new light on the life and character of the notori-ously charismatic Prince on whom the hopes and dreams of the Jacobites were first raised and then dashed. Vividly portrayed accounts of his hitherto little-known love affair with his cousin Louise de Montbazon, his adventures in France and Italy, his valiant attempts to restore his family to the British throne, and the bloody battles of the 1745 Rising, which culminated in Culloden, succeed in bringing this legendary figure to surprising life.
The chance discovery in an old deed box of a unique relie that directly linked his family with the Prince and the Rising fired Sir Fitzroy Maclean's imagination. Düring two decades of research into contempo-rary accounts, he followed in the Prince's footsteps from Frascati to the Isle of Eriskay, from Glen Corradale to Essex Street in London and to the Place des Vosges in Paris.
Maclean, himself a Highlander, is a former soldier and diplomat who has drawn upon his own firsthand experiences of guerrilla warfare and missions in enemy-occupied territory to capture not only the facts but the spirit of those desperate times. It is this unique perspective, together
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with his skillful use of recently dis-covered material and his rare narra-tive gift, that gives this latest book by the author of Eastern Approaches an immediacy and momentum rarely found in so distinguished a biograph-ical work. Vissza