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Trevor Royle

Biography

Trevor Royle

Trevor Royle is a well-known writer and broadcaster specializing in military history. His books include CRIMEA, THE CIVIL WAR: The War of the Three Kingdoms and THE WARS OF THE ROSES. He is a script writer for the BBC and a columnist for the Edinburgh Sunday Herald, writing on international affairs and defense-related topics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Trevor Royle

Books by Trevor Royle

Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
by Trevor Royle - History, Nonfiction

The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English; the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion. In CULLODEN, we are drawn into the ranks, on both sides, alongside doomed Jacobites fighting fellow Scots dressed in the red coats of the Duke of Cumberland's Royal Army. And we meet the Duke himself, a skilled warrior who would gain notoriety because of the reprisals on Highland clans in the battle's aftermath.