Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. 'We are not yet subdued': Mons Graupius, AD 84
- 2. The four peoples: Nechtansmere, 685
- 3. The House of Canmore: Carham, 1018
- 4. 'Not for glory ... but for freedom': Bannockburn, 1314
- 5. 'A Douglas, a Douglas': Otterburn, 1388
- 6. The rough wooing: Flodden, 1513
- 7. Raids and reivers: Ancrum Moor, 1545
- 8. The Paladin: Dunbar, 1650
- 10. Blood on the heather: Killicrankie, 1689
- Glencoe, 1692
- 11. Kings over the water: Culloden, 1746
- Postscript: The thin red line.