Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0312323964, Hardcover)

obert Bruce was Scotland's greatest king ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under English occupation. When Bruce began his reign, his first battle was a calamitous loss. Yet steadily between 1307-1313 King Robert won battle after battle, shunning pitched medieval clashes, and fighting as a guerrilla force, a form of warfare which he, per-haps, invented. The war peaked in 1314 when King Robert faced a formidable English invasion. With brilliant tactics and reso-lute bravery the vastly outnumbered Scots defeated and routed the English knights, archers, and yeomen at the great and histor-ical battle of Bannockburn. And that's only the first half of this epic tale of King Robert's long and event-filled life. The Great Scot is a novel filled with valor, treachery, journeys great and small, and people of every rank and station-all from the pages of Scottish history.