Culloden

Part of the Great Battle series, this time we’re off to the heather and boggy moors outside Inverness and the Battle of Culloden. Originally published in 2016, this Folio Society edition comes in a black slipcase with snazzy artwork on the quality cover. It’s a slender, small format volume, with paper that suits text, but isn’t good for photo reproduction.

What you have is a retelling of the battle and a placing of it in the evolving British society. There are also a couple of colour plate sections with a range of artworks and photos. That’s the good news, the bad is that the author brings not only an academic approach but also revels in some of the worst purple prose I’ve ever seen in a history book. There’s nothing here that hasn’t been done better everywhere else and with considerably less pomposity.

• Folio Society
• www.foliosociety.com
• 190 pages. Hardback. £39.95

**************************************************************

Can't get to the newsagents for your copy of The Armourer? Order it online (now with free postage!) or take out a subscription and avoid the general public for the next 12 months entirely. And if you're confined to quarters, stock up on some bookazines to keep you entertained.

Buy the latest copy or any back issues, either in print or digital editions by clicking on The Armourer.

It's our latest bookazine, Tanks of WWII, a 164-page guide to the tanks, commanders and battles of WWII. With over 170 tank prototypes, variants, models from the Axis and Allied nations, plus blueprints, rare photos and 3D illustrations. This collector's bookazine can be yours for just £9.99. Click here for your copy.

Celebrate the heroes of the Battle of Britain with a commemorative bookazine, with colour images throughout, for £8.99. Get your 164 page copy here.

Buy a copy of Aircraft of the RAF, featuring 595 flying machines, for £7.99 by clicking here.

Or how about a copy of the Collecting German Militaria bookazine for £7.99? Click here to buy this.