I have always like reading Scottish history, and Bonnie Prince Charlie is no exception!

I started this book, not really remembering what happens, but knowing that Prince Charles never succeeds in his quest to regain the throne, but it was so sad to see all of the mistakes that were made that led to t

I think this is definitely one of the better Henty books I've read - not too heavy on talking about the campaigns. And I'm all into anything Scottish - the '45 is fascinating to me.
One objection I have is when (view spoiler)[Ronald kills the Duke de Chateau Rouge in a duel, how calmly he takes it. I mean, here you (hide spoiler)]

Put it down as 3.5 stars. It was an odd book, one could almost say it was two seperate books. It was over half way through it before Charles Stuart became a key player in the novel. Up to that point it was an adventure story about a young man trying to find his parents. This search led to him having

The well-drawn characters and interesting historical details make it worth slogging through the sometimes tedious and somewhat garbled sentences. The novel manages to be both exciting and boring.

G A Henty is a genre unto himself.. but he spends so much time on the historical account that the characters just get lost. In this book you would think you would get a thorough account of Culloden, but it almost was omitted.. I wanted to like this book more than i did.

I've always wanted to read a G.A Henty book so I started with this one. Bonnie Prince Charlie is of particlar interest to me for the simple reason that I grew up hearing about him like he was some kind of hero.

This is rather odd, considering my dad that talked about him is a staunch Calvinist whose

This book is the second G.A. Henty I have read and it was ok, kind of slow but ok. The problem I tend to have with G.A. Henty's books are that they are mostly about men and tend to be chauvinist against women making them out to be weak twerps that have to be 'looked out' for by the men. Three stars