Blood on the Thistle: The Tragic Story of the Cranston Family and Their Remarkable Sacrifice [Audiobook] download free by Stuart Pearson
- Listen audiobook: Blood on the Thistle: The Tragic Story of the Cranston Family and Their Remarkable Sacrifice
- Author: Stuart Pearson
- Release date: 2015/10/22
- Publisher: JOHN BLAKE PUBLISHING LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781784183349
- Rating: 9.54 of 10
- Votes: 866
- Review by: Barrett Keller
- Review rating: 9.66 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/12
- Duration: 3H37M36S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, WavPack, WMA, MP3, MPEG4, FLAC (compression AZW3, RAR, TAR.LZO, ZIP, Z, LZMA, LZO)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M12S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifi ce 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 aspirational 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Museum, Historic Sites, Gallery & Art Guides, British & Irish History, True Crime Biographies, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Genealogy, World War 1 Books, True Crime Books
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 7.38 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x22.86mm
- Weight: 260g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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