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Blood On The Thistle

by Stuart Pearson
₹980.00
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781784183349
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: Tourism, Travel Guide & Hospitality
  • Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Blake Publishing Ltd
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: GBP 7.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 252 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical

Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by World War I, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served in World War I, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifice on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days. This is the tale of how a once proud and inspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.

Stuart Pearson, after many varied careers over decades in law enforcement, education, government, and business, has finally found his calling in writing. His first book Bittersweet: The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century was published to much critical acclaim, and was nominated for the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Literature in 2010. Bob Mitchell trained as a psychiatric nurse in the late 1960s, and is now retired from his position as Senior Lecturer (Mental Health) at Napier University, Edinburgh.

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