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  • Assassins and Secret Listeners
    Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £20.00

    Uncover the story of a nation’s hidden heroes. Throughout Britain, all day, every day and in the dead of night, the secret listeners went about their solitary work. Hands on headphones, these men and women, drawn from all walks of civilian...

  • Bannockburn
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £8.99

    Relive the battle for a nation. As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a foregone conclusion. But...

  • The Battle for George Square 1919
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Oct 2025
    £25.00

    The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919, is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history. It is also the most mythologised. For a century, the...

  • The Black Douglases
    E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001
    £30.00

    During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland’s champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the...

  • The Drowned and the Saved
    Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024
    £10.99

    Winner of the Saltire Society History Book of the Year Next morning at about 6 o’clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore. My father had gone with others to look for survivors … I...

  • Facing the Bear
    E-Book | Pub: 08 Aug 2019
    £9.99

    Between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As part of Nato’s response, Scotland played a key role in the alliance’s forward maritime defence strategy, aimed...

  • Night Train to Odesa
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2025
    £12.99

    When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant. Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow of people was a reporter from the north of Scotland. Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a...

  • Scapa
    Paperback | Pub: 14 Sep 2001
    £14.99

    Scapa Flow was one of the world’s great naval bases and the scene of many of the major events of twentieth-century naval history. During both World Wars, the Royal Navy made Scapa the home for its capital ships, and thousands of servicemen and...

  • Scottish Battles
    E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012
    £7.99

    Scottish history has been shaped and defined by a series of great battles. John Sadler gives the first full military history of Scotland for many years. From Mons Graupius to Culloden, he shows how terrain and politics shaped the campaigns and...

  • Supreme Sacrifice
    E-Book | Pub: 11 Aug 2016
    £7.99

    The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists 72 men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theatre of the war. They were awarded very few medals and their military careers were not remarkable...

  • The Wars of the Bruces
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022
    £14.99

    The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England’s war with...