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My daughter died It was on a bright Palm Sunday morning three years ago. One phone call and life, as we knew it, was forever changed. For my husband and me, everything was turned inside out and upside down, leaving us completely adrift, just trying to negotiate everyday existence. Instantly we became members of a club that no one ever volunteers to join. We are parents of a child who died, and surviving has become what we do every moment of every day. Why Beyond Culloden? Our sweet Missy was a student of Scottish history. We have, for years, studied about our family and our Scots-Irish and Sco

In this fascinating and original book, a team of leading historians and archaeologists reconsiders every aspect of the battle. They examine the latest historical and archaeological evidence, question every assumption, and rewrite the story of the campaign in vivid detail. This is the first time that such a distinguished team of experts has focused on a single British battle. The result is a seminal study of the subject, and it is a landmark publication of battlefield archaeology.

Produced by the National Trust for Scotland and written by volunteers at the Culloden Visitor Centre

The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English: The battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion.

RT Reviewers' Choice Award winner She'll put her life on the line for him . . . When Akira Ayres finds the brawny Scot with a musket ball in his thigh, the healer has no qualms about doing whatever it takes to save his life. Even if it means fleeing with him across the Highlands to tend to his...