The Steel Bonnets

Download or read book The Steel Bonnets written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1972 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the plunders, raiders, and outlaws who terrorized the Anglo-Scottish Border for over 300 years. It is the story of the notorious raiding families--Armstrongs, Elliots, Grahams, Johnstones, Maxwells, Scotts, Kerrs, Nixons, and others--of the outlaw bands and broken men, and the fierce battles of English and Scottish armies across the Marches. The Steel Bonnets tells their true story in its historical context-- how the reivers ran their raids and operated their system of blackmail and terrorism, and how the March Wardens, enforcing the unique Border law, fought the great lawless community.