The Steel Bonnets - The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

Border reivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. They included both Scottish and English people, and they raided the entire border country without regard to their victims' nationality. Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuarts and Tudors. The creator of the Flashman series provides an entertaining and informative portrait of these guerrillas in steel bonnets...