Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice by Stuart Pearson Bob Mitchell Robert G Mitchell

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice by Stuart Pearson Bob Mitchell Robert G Mitchell

Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifi ce on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days. This is the tale of how a once proud and aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.

'An impossibly sad story' - THE SCOTSMAN 'A movingly re-imagined history' - FAMILY TREE

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ISBN 13	9781784183349
ISBN 10	1784183342
Title	Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice
Author	Stuart Pearson Bob Mitchell Robert G Mitchell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Blake Publishing Ltd
Year published	2015-04-02
Number of pages	336
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