Robert the Bruce: Pocket Giants

by Fiona Watson

From disastrous beginnings after he took the throne of Scotland, having murdered a powerful rival, Robert I became a military leader of consummate genius. Throwing away the rulebook of medieval warfare, which favoured the mounted knight, he remodelled the Scottish army as a disciplined, audacious band of brothers capable of surprising castles, raiding and extracting blackmail as far south as Yorkshire and even defeating a mighty English army in pitched...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752493558
• ISBN13: 9780752493558
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.7"