This work is the inside story of the fight that ensued when on the 23rd of July 1991 Tom King, the Secretary-of-State for Defence, announced the details of the defence review "Options for Change". The army was to be cut from 55 to 38 infantry battalions, with a disporportionately damaging effect on the Scottish Division. Many famous regiments were earmarked for amalgamation, and the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, a regiment that had served Britain well since it was raised in Edinburgh by the Earl of Leven in 1689, was one of those that would have disappeared as a result. But a proud Scottish...