Culloden

This study of the 1746 battle on Culloden Moor treats the fight, its aftermath, and the stories later told about it. Pittock places the engagement in the Forty-Five campaign, then uses archival evidence and battlefield archaeology to argue that the Jacobite army was a regular, largely musket-armed force, broken more by cavalry than by the myth of kilted swordsmen charging into cannon. Later chapters follow occupation policy and the uses of Culloden in British memory, from Whig historiography to romantic commemoration. The book is a military and cultural history of one battle and of how it was rewritten.

Quarter-bound in blue cloth, with textured paper sides printed with coloured artwork by Geoff Grandfield. Plain slipcase.