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The Jacobite army marches into England and Alistair Maclean, close confident of Charles Edward Stewart embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the cause in the west. He soon begins to suspect someone close to the Prince is passing information to the Government, but just... Read Full Overview

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This early work is John Buchan's 1923 novel, "Midwinter - Certain Travellers in Old England". Set to the backdrop of the Jacobite rising of 1745, it tells the story of a Scotsman who has been living with the exiled Stuarts in France, and who travels to England to join the Scottish... Read Full Overview

Midwinter: Certain travellers in old England is a 1923 historical novel by John Buchan. It is set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when an army of Scottish highlanders advanced into England seeking to place Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart), the grandson of ousted King... Read Full Overview

Midwinter: Certain travellers in old England is a 1923 historical novel by John Buchan.It is set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when an army of Scottish highlanders advanced into England seeking to place Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart), the grandson of ousted King... Read Full Overview

Die Handlung spielt zur Zeit des Jakobitenaufstandes von 1745, als eine Armee schottischer Hochl?nder, die Charles Stuart auf den englischen Thron setzen wollte, bis nach S?den in England vordrang. Der Prinz, auch bekannt als "Bonnie Prince Charlie", der Enkel des gest?rzten... Read Full Overview

Alastair Maclean, a Scotsman who has been living in France with the exiled Stuarts, comes to England to join the Scottish army as it advances towards London. But on the way he discovers that agents (Sir John Norreys and Nicholas Kyd) supposedly helping the Jacobite cause by encouraging... Read Full Overview

Midwinter is a wonderfully written historical novel. Alastair Maclean. A scottsman who has been in exile in France goes to Englad to join the Scottish Army as it advances on London. En route Maclean discovers a plot that will endanger the Scottish cause. Further complicating... Read Full Overview

Midwinter is a wonderfully written historical novel. Alastair Maclean. A scottsman who has been in exile in France goes to Englad to join the Scottish Army as it advances on London. En route Maclean discovers a plot that will endanger the Scottish cause. Further complicating... Read Full Overview

Tells the tale of Alastair Maclean, confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the Jacobite cause in the West of England.