Robert the Bruce, King of Scots

“ A heroic biography of one of Scotland's legendary leaders, by a British novelist and former literary critic for the London Sunday Times ” ( Kirkus ). Robert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of England. Its people lived in abject poverty. But on the day he seized the crown, Bruce renewed the fight for Scotland’s freedom, and let forth a battle cry that would ec