Stone of Destiny

by Ian R. Hamilton and Ian Hamilton

Book Overview

This title is now a major Hollywood film starring Robert Carlyle and Billy Boyd. Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night, assisted by Alan Stewart, Gavin Vernon and Kay Matheson, he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey and in doing so became a Scottish national hero. In England, however, the act had the opposite effect and a manhunt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184158729X
• ISBN13: 9781841587295
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"