Robert The Bruce  The Path of the Hero King  by Nigel Tranter
Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter
Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter
Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter
Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter
Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter
Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter
Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter
Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter

Robert The Bruce by Nigel Tranter

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Robert The Bruce

The Path of the Hero King

by Nigel Tranter

Hodder & Stoughton, 1970 [First Edition], ISBN 0340127384, illustrated end-papers (maps), hardcover, dust-jacket

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some rubbing and scuffing to end-papers, library sticker to reverse front end-paper, stamp to back end-paper, weakened spine, text block solid, dust-jacket shows edge and shelf wear with small chips, rubbing, small tears, creasing and sticker to spine  (see photographs)

"A harried fugitive, guilt-ridden, excommunicated, Robert the Bruce, King of Scots in name and nothing more, faced a future that all but he - and perhaps Elizabeth de Burgh, his wife - accepted as devoid of hope; his kingdom occupied by a powerful and ruthless invader; his army defeated; a large proportion of his supporters dead or prisoners; much of his people against him; and the rest so cowed and war-sick as not longer to care.  Only a man of transcendent courage would have continued the struggle, or see it as worth continuing.  But Bruce, whatever his many failings, was courageous above all, with a driving love of freedom that gave him no rest"