PREBBLE John — Culloden. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Secker & Warburg, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 8 plates, 2 full-page plates in the text and endpaper maps, preliminaries lightly browned; red tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top mildly spotted else a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. FIRST PUBLICATION OF ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED SINGLE-ACTION HISTORIES EVER WRITTTEN. This classic retelling of the last battle fought on British soil was responsible for much renewed interest in the '45 campaign and its period. Revolutionary in its emphasis on the 'ordinary' participants of both sides, it was subsequently (in 1964) the basis of Peter Watkins' ground-breaking feature-documentary for the BBC. The work's enormous success led its author to continued popularity in the field of Scottish military history through his later, equally renowned, accounts of Glencoe and The Highland Clearances. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.