![]() ![]() Speaking of my edition, it’s a Coronet Books mass market paperback and makes an error in attributing the painting. Even the painting of him on the cover of my edition makes him seem much older. ![]() That’s only slightly older than my brother is now-and it’s not a fact that comes to mind when I think about him. What really surprised me, and what I had to keep in mind, was that Wallace was just 26 years old when he started his campaigns. I’m sure some liberties have been taken to the presentation of history to make things more immersive or relatable for the modern reader, but overall I’m prepared to accept those. In this book, Nigel Tranter tells the story of William Wallace, son of a small knight of Elderslie, who ended up jump-starting resistance to Edward Longshanks of England, fighting on behalf of the deposed John Balliol and eventually, by his actions, setting Robert the Bruce on the path to the Scottish throne.Īs one comes to expect with a Tranter book, this one is rich in detail and does a fairly good job of balancing the needs of informing the reader with advancing the plot in a non-clunky way. ![]()
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