Culloden | eBook

Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our islands history - and OKeeffe tells it beautifullyThe Times

Charles Edward Stuarts campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at Culloden, his Jacobite army was overpowered in under forty minutes. Its brutal repercussions, however, endured for years, its legacy for centuries.

Paul OKeeffe follows the Jacobite army from initial victories to calamitous defeat. Exploring the battles aftermath, he chronicles the Jacobite prisoners paying for their treason on block and gibbet while those granted the Kings mercy suffered the fate of forced labour on plantations in the colonies. While Stuarts cause eventually acquired an aura of romanticism, the Jacobite Rising remains one of the most bloody and divisive conflicts in British domestic history, which resonates to this day.

Detailed, vivid - and not for the faint-heartedFinancial Times

Fascinating, meticulously researched... tremendousDaily Mail

Intensely readable... and vividly written Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books