Trevor Royle is a broadcaster and author specialising in the history of war and empire. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is also a member of the Scottish Government’s Advisory Panel for Commemorating the First World War.
25 Ebooks by Trevor Royle
Trevor Royle: The Kitchener Enigma
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener’s latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great …
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€20.99
Trevor Royle: A Time of Tyrants
In this book acclaimed military historian Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. Throughout the conflict the country’s geographical position …
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€11.99
Trevor Royle: The Flowers of the Forest
On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland …
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€11.99
Trevor Royle: Isn’t All This Bloody?
As in the rest of Britain, the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 was met in Scotland with excitement and relief. In the field of literature too, the initial response was positive. Kailyard fiction and …
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€11.99
Trevor Royle: Facing the Bear
Between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of Communism confrontation with the Soviet Union was an everyday reality. As part of Nato’s response, Scotland played a key role in the …
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€24.00
Trevor Royle: Culloden
The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the …
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€3.99
Trevor Royle: Orde Wingate
‘;A superb biography’ of the controversial British Army officer who lead the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade against the Japanese in Burma during World War II (History Of War.org). Winston Churchill …
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€5.00
Trevor Royle: Royal Scots
The Royal Scots are Scotland’s oldest infantry regiment, with a tradition that stretches back to 1633. This first concise history of the regiment is based largely on the recollections of several …
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€10.99
Trevor Royle: Fighting Mac
On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain’s greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an …
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€9.49
Trevor Royle: Queen’s Own Highlanders
Created in 1961 as a result of the amalgamation of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders and the Seaforth Highlanders, the Queen’s Own Highlanders embody the history and traditions of some of …
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€14.99
Trevor Royle: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is one of the best-known regiments in the British Army. In a previous incarnation as the 93rd Highlanders, its soldiers were famed for being the ‘thin red line’ …
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€14.99
Trevor Royle: Cameronians
In May 1968, as part of cutbacks to the British Army, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) was disbanded at a moving ceremony held at the same spot in Douglas in Lanarkshire at which it had been raised …
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€14.99
Trevor Royle: Gordon Highlanders
The Gordons recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment’s character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Nairn. It was raised in 1794 by an …
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€14.99
Trevor Royle: King’s Own Scottish Borderers
The King’s Own Scottish Borderers is one of only two Scottish regiments never to have been amalgamated until it joined forces with The Royal Scots to form the 1st battalion of The Royal Regiment of …
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€14.99
Trevor Royle: Royal Highland Fusiliers
The Royal Highland Fusiliers came into being in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of two regiments, both of which had strong connections with Glasgow and the west of Scotland: The Royal Scots …
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€14.99
Trevor Royle: Black Watch
The Black Watch was formed at Aberfeldy in Perthshire in the early eighteenth century as an independent security force, or ‘watch’, to guard the approaches to the lawless areas of the Scottish …
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€14.99
Trevor Royle: Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature
The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland’s literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 …
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€10.99
Ian Archer & Trevor Royle: We’ll Support You Evermore
‘It has to start somewhere for everyone, this daft, wild, extraordinary notion that happiness is a Scottish lap of honour and that the greatest, most hysterical happiness would be a Scottish lap of …
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€6.99
Trevor Royle: War Report
Whenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspondents, a type of journalists whom General …
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€10.99
Trevor Royle: In Flanders Fields
This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland’s unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered together well-known writers like John Buchan, Eric …
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€14.99
Trevor Royle: Britain’s Lost Regiments
The history of the British Army is really the story of its regiments and the men who served in them. From the very beginning they formed the backbone of a singular institution that is itself a reflec …
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€31.99
Trevor Royle: A Dictionary of Military Quotations
This book, first published in 1990, is a provocative collection of military quotations that captures the human essence of warfare. From the skirmishes beneath the walls of Troy to the dropping of the …
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€35.06
Trevor Royle: A Dictionary of Military Quotations
This book, first published in 1990, is a provocative collection of military quotations that captures the human essence of warfare. From the skirmishes beneath the walls of Troy to the dropping of the …
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€36.25
Ray Ward & Trevor Royle: With the Argylls
When Ray Ward died in 1999, his sons discovered an old and dusty manuscript in an Afrika Korps ammunition box in the cellar of the family home in Glasgow. These papers contained a collection of their …
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€8.39
John McCallum: The Long Way Home
At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John Mc Callum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up …
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€7.19
