The King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites
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Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2020 Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne. Although its failure brought savage retribution from the Hannoverians the Jacobite flame continued to burn decades after Culloden. This is the first modern history of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland England and Ireland from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that drove James II into exile and the death of his grandson Cardinal Henry Duke of York in 1807. The Battle of Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlies flight through the heather are well known but not the other risings and plots that involved half of Europe and even revolutionary America. The King Over the Water weaves together all the strands of this gripping saga into a vivid sweeping narrative full of insight analysis and anecdote.
