The Scottish Civil War: The Bruces and Balliols and the War for Control of Scotland, 1286-1356

Citation

Penman MA (2002) The Scottish Civil War: The Bruces and Balliols and the War for Control of Scotland, 1286-1356. Stroud: The History Press/ Tempus. http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/index.php/the-scottish-civil-war.html

Abstract
A controversial re-evaluation of the Scottish Wars of Independence which argues that the sixty years of civil war between two generations of rival claimants for the Scottish throne - each with their armed camps of ambitious nobles - had a far more devestating and revolutionary impact upon the kingdom of Scotland than the scrappy wars against England's Edwards I, II and III. You can read the Introduction to this book at: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2328