We Fought For Ardnish

Author : Angus MacDonald
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857909940
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Fought For Ardnish written by Angus MacDonald and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Scottish soldier finds love in the midst of war, he will go to any length not to lose it in this WWII epic by the acclaimed author of Ardnish. Like his father before him, Donald Angus Gillies is leaving the small highland village of Ardnish to go to war against a distant enemy. Joining the British Army’s Lavat Scouts, he is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he soon meets the beautiful Francoise, a French-Canadian agent of the Special Operations Executive. The pair immediately form a close bond, but when Francoise is captured, Donald Angus realizes how strong his feelings for her truly are. His desperate attempts to find her prove fruitless. But a posting to Canada leads to some remarkable news, not only about Francoise, but about his own family. Reunited once more, Donald Angus and Francoise plan to live together in his beloved Ardnish, but have one further mission to complete first – a mission more dangerous than anything they have ever faced before . . .

Author : Angus MacDonald
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178885294X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ardnish written by Angus MacDonald and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ardnish, the Highlands of Scotland, 1944. On his deathbed, Donald John Gillies sends for a priest to hear his last confession. During his 85 years he has witnessed much – world wars, the loss of family through death and emigration, and the daily struggles which face the small remote community. Waiting anxiously for the priest, his mind travels back to the dusty plains of South Africa in 1901, where he fought as a Lovat Scout during the Boer War, and where he met the woman who was the love of his life. Forced to abandon her and her young daughter in a British concentration camp, DJ returns to Scotland and his old life after his camp is ambushed by Boers and many of his fellow soldiers are massacred. As he lies dying, an unexpected visitor arrives at Ardnish. making it more imperative then ever for DJ to come to terms with the past and to make peace with himself – and his family – while there is still time.

Author : Angus MacDonald
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788853326
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Ardnish written by Angus MacDonald and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small inheritance and a letter from his grandfather mark the beginnings of a journey that leads Peter Angus Gillies from his mundane job in Canada to Ardnish, the land of his forebears, on the rugged and remote west coast of Scotland. As Peter Angus explores the long-abandoned places where his ancestors eked out a living and listens to stories about them, he learns of treasure lost centuries before from a ship transporting French gold to help the Jacobite cause. Completely bewitched by the spell of Ardnish and the ghosts of its past, he sets out to find the hidden gold. With the help of a local girl, Sarah, he embarks on a search that will test him emotionally and physically as he learns independence and resilience – and experiences a love like he has never known before.

Author : Ben Buxton
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857904922
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vatersay Raiders written by Ben Buxton and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where they had built huts and planted potatoes without permission. The case caused an outcry throughout Scotland, and led eventually to the purchase of the island by the government for crofting. This book, the first about Vatersay, tells the remarkable story of the raiders and their struggle to escape from the poverty which the policies of an absentee landowner forced them to endure. The Vatersay Raiders documents not only these events, which had enormous significance in the history of crofting, but also the fascinating earlier history of Vatersay and its now-deserted neighbour Sandray. An outline of more recent developments brings the account up to date.

Author : Angus Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clan Donald written by Angus Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007508182
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and War in the Apennines written by Eric Newby and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', ‘Love and War in the Apennines’ is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II.

Author : Geoff Allan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910636107
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Bothy Bible written by Geoff Allan and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Macbain
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Place Names, Highlands & Islands of Scotland written by Alexander Macbain and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1922 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679723285
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Men written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-04-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.

Author : Angus MacDonald
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857903357
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ardnish Was Home written by Angus MacDonald and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stationed in Gallipoli during WWI, a wounded Scottish soldier finds love as he longs for home in this novel of memory, romance and the horror of war. Gallipoli, 1916. A soldier in the British Army’s Lovat Scouts, Young Donald Peter Gillies, lies in a hospital bed, blinded by the Turks. There by his side is Louise, a Queen Alexandra Corps nurse, Louise, who cares for him and listens to his stories of home. Donald paints a vivid picture of the western highlands coast, telling stories of how his family lived: bagpiping, sheep shearing, celidhs, illegal distilling, his mother saving the life of the people of St Kilda, the navvies building the west highland railway and the relationship between the lairds and the people. Louise in turn tells her own story of growing up in the Welsh valley: coal mining, a harsh and unforgiving upbringing. But when they suddenly find themselves cut off from the allied troops, they must make a daring escape through Turkey to Greece. The first novel in Angus MacDonald’s acclaimed trilogy begins an epic tale spanning generation of war and of a single Scottish family.