Flowers of Chivalry

by Nigel Tranter

Overview

Once again Scotland was fighting for her survival as a free and
independent nation.

Robert the Bruce's legacy, three years after his death in 1329, is in
danger. With a five-year-old heir guarded by an ageing and diminishing
band of lieutenants, the English King, Edward III, has seen his
opportunity. War is renewed, a puppet king set up.

In the years of struggle that follow, two men stand out as leaders of
their people: Sir William Douglas, the Knight of Liddesdale, known as
the Flower of Chivalry; and Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalwolsey.

Friends and comrades-in-arms by their gallantry and daring, they do more
than any others to save their country.

Yet something is to happen between them that will cause one of the most
desperate events in Scotland's violent and dramatic history...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444757637
Publisher:	Hodder
Publication date:	09/13/2012
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	563 KB

About the Author

One of Scotland's best-loved authors, Nigel Tranter wrote over ninety novels on Scottish history. He died at the age of ninety on 9 January 2000.

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The young man who sat at the table, quill
in hand, was extraordinarily like his brother, and yet so very different. In
feature and build and colouring they were not far from identical; but in
expression, demeanour and bearing there was no similarity. Where Alexander was
keen-eyed, firm-mouthed and strong-chinned, yet with laughter-lines apt to qualify
any aspect of sternness, William looked gentle, studious, diffident almost, and
apt to be abstracted, not weak but passive, as though habitually suspending
judgement. Two years the younger, despite his reflective air, he managed to
look still more junior.

‘Still pouring over papers, Will! On my
soul, your eyes will drop out, one of these das! Can you not find something
better to do, this fine July afternoon?’ he said that affably, however,
smiling, and tramped over the papers to clap his brother on the bent shoulders.
They were good friends, these two.