Bannockburn Is Revealed!

William Scott is the Author of The Bannockburn Years, a novel which won the Constable Trophy in 1997, published by Luath Press, Edinburgh which attracted critical comment by some scholars most of whom had not read the book and imagined he had not read theirs.  Not so! He had even read the sources and rejected theirs.  Realizing that current theory was flawed, he set out to investigate the matter fully and prove his conclusions.  Bannockburn revealed is the result of two and a half years of intensive research following earlier work.  Mathematics, science, psychology and philosophy in a simple way have been used to illuminate history.  The novel procedure of printing all the relevant sources together and analysing them carefully to build tables of comparison for each issue provides conclusions as compelling as ever conceived in this subject.  The further procedure of rating all the arguments for their compulsive force makes this procedurally a highly original work of medieval history with general application.  Any history of the traditional descriptive type henceforth risks demolition by these methods as has now just happened to some of the best known prior historical writings on the battle of Bannockburn.

• Over 100 pages are devoted to topography which has been understood for the first time
• Every detail in the map of 1314 is explained and justified, the first time a scholar has ever justified his map
• The finest map of the battle ever produced
• Contains every relevant source, printed within the text!
• Every conclusion is justified, all previous arguments are demolished!
• Details of Bruce's marvellous defensive position, which made victory inevitable