Scots Wha Hae! Breaking News from Scotland's Past

These authors have put together a humorous sort of "tabloid view" of Scottish history. In this little book one will find a series of amusing and informative news reports, articles, letters, and advertisements on 5,000 years of Scottish history. Here you'll read about absurd kings and queens, ludicrous saints, gruesome battles and wicked witches, collapsing bridges and great football disasters. Find out which saint plucked out her eyes and sent them to an admirer on a skewer, which prince cross-dressed his way out of trouble, when was the first appearance of the Loch Ness monster, and how did the dreaded English come to have tails! Here history is truly stranger than fiction -- or is it? Only your well-versed Scottish historian knows for sure.