The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser

Possibly the gold-standard for the history of the Border Reivers, the lawless clans, the original gangsters, that scratched a living on the border between Scotland and England until the start of the seventeenth century, when James IV and I unified the crowns.

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