This classic book is John Buchan s 1928 historical study, Montrose - A History . James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612 1650) was a Scottish poet and soldier. He first fought for the Covenanters during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but defected to the side of King Charles I after the beginning of the English Civil War. Within this volume Buchan explores Graham, Marquis of Montrose s command of the Roundhead army during the 1644 1650 war. A fascinating and detailed study, Montrose - A History is recommended for those with an interest in the English Civil War, and would make for a great...

Contents Include: How a retired Provision Merchant felt the Impulse of Spring Of Mr. John Heritage and the Difference in Points of View How Childe Roland and Another came to the Dark Tower Dougal Of the Princess in the Tower How Mr. McCunn departed with relief and returned with resolution Sundry doings in the Mirk How a Middle-Aged Crusader accepted a Challenge The First Battle of the Cruives Deals with an Escape and a Journey Gravity out of bed How Mr. McCunn committed an Assault upon an Ally The Coming of the Danish Brig The Second Battle of the Cruives The Gorbals Die-Hards go into Action...

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have

I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have

I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a mighty appetite and a quiet mind. As we slipped up the Thames valley on the smooth Great Western line I had...

I sat and thought for a bit, for the name "Bullivant" carried me back eighteen months to the hot summer before the war. I had not seen the man since, though I had read about him in the papers. For more than a year I had been a busy battalion officer, with no other thought than to hammer a lot of raw stuff into good soldiers. I had succeeded pretty well, and there was no prouder man on earth than Richard Hannay when he took his Lennox Highlanders over the parapets on that glorious and bloody 25th day of September. Loos was no picnic, and we had had some ugly bits of scrapping before that, but...

John Macnab is a novel written by John Buchan about three successful friends in their mid-forties who decide to turn to poaching. Under the name of "John Macnab" they set up shop in the home of a conservative member of a parliament and fight with their neighbors who believe they are going to steal fish from their land.

Supernatural Buchan - Stories of Ancient Spirits uncanny places and strange creatures. Buchan's stories of solid characters clad in tweeds and braving all odds armed only with a stout walking stick have become popular classics. Perhaps it is therefore no surprise that the same character types populate his highly entertaining tales of the strange and weird - here collected into a feast of supernatural delights. In a Buchan story the hauntings and other manifestations are far more subtle than the usual blood-curdling phantoms. The author brings finely crafted detail and a profound sense of the...

Supernatural Buchan - Stories of Ancient Spirits uncanny places and strange creatures. Buchan's stories of solid characters clad in tweeds and braving all odds armed only with a stout walking stick have become popular classics. Perhaps it is therefore no surprise that the same character types populate his highly entertaining tales of the strange and weird - here collected into a feast of supernatural delights. In a Buchan story the hauntings and other manifestations are far more subtle than the usual blood-curdling phantoms. The author brings finely crafted detail and a profound sense of the...