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Culloden
  • Published: 28 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473546097
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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Culloden

Battle & Aftermath

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28 Jan 2021
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12 Feb 2023
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One of the most brutal battles in British domestic history brought to stunning life by a master military historian

'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The Times

Charles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at Culloden, his Jacobite army was overpowered in under forty minutes. Its brutal repercussions, however, endured for years, its legacy for centuries.

Paul O'Keeffe follows the Jacobite army from initial victories to calamitous defeat. Exploring the battle's aftermath, he chronicles the Jacobite prisoners paying for their treason on block and gibbet while those granted 'the King's mercy' suffered the fate of forced labour on plantations in the colonies. While Stuart's cause eventually acquired an aura of romanticism, the Jacobite Rising remains one of the most bloody and divisive conflicts in British domestic history, which resonates to this day.

'Detailed, vivid - and not for the faint-hearted' Financial Times

'Fascinating, meticulously researched... tremendous' Daily Mail

'Intensely readable... and vividly written' Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books
  • Published: 28 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473546097
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
Categories:

About the author

Paul O'Keeffe

Paul O'Keeffe is a lecturer and writer based in Liverpool. His acclaimed books include Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis, A Genius for Failure: The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon and, most recently, Waterloo: The Aftermath.

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A Genius for Failure
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Praise for Culloden

With his account of the crushing defeat of Jacobite forces, Paul O'Keeffe's Culloden promises poignant reading in a year when, in the wake of Brexit and forthcoming Scottish Parliament elections, the issue of Scottish independence is set to loom large on the UK political agenda

Frederick Studemann and Laura Battle, Financial Times, *Books to Look Out For 2021*