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Index
Cover
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: THE LAND ITSELF
Chapter 1 Nature’s Crucible: Stirling, The Neck & the Twins
The Land Protects Its Own
Stirling & Moat Cailin: The Keys To The Kingdom
A Bridge To Cross At Any Cost
Chapter 2 Rocks of the Ages: Dumbarton & Casterly
The Lion’s Den: Casterly Rock
The Rock of the Britons
Children of the Rock
Chapter 3 The Isles
A World Apart?
In Amongst The Machair
The Iron Islands
A Network of Stone & Ships
The Light At The End Of The World
Chapter 4 North versus South?
PART TWO: STORIES OF THE STONES
Chapter 5 No Ruined Stones
Standing Stones
Barrows & Cairns
Cup & Ring Marks
Crannogs
Chapter 6 The Walls at the Edge of the World
The Roman Walls
The Land Between the Walls
Chapter 7 Castles: Towers of Power
The Makings Of A Castle
Castle Types In Scotland & Westeros
Scaling up the Walls
The Complicated Lives Of Castles
Winterfell: King of Castles
Craigmillar Castle: Winterfell In Miniature
PART THREE: PLAYERS OF THE GAME
Chapter 8 The Sea Kings: Islesmen & Ironborn
Vikings & the Old Way
What is Dead May Never Die
Ambitions of Empire
The Sinking of the Lordship
Warrior Bards
Heart Of The Isles: Finlaggan & Old Wyk
Chapter 9 Barbarians at the Gates? Caledonians & Wildlings
The Free Folk at War
Battle for the True North: Mons Graupius & Castle Black
Chapter 10 The King Who Knelt
Chapter 11 The Lion and His Claws: Edward I & Tywin Lannister
All a King Should Be?
Bastards in Their Fathers’ Eyes
A Legacy of Woe
Chapter 12 The Banner with the Bloody Heart
Chapter 13 A Tale of Two Roberts: Bruce & Baratheon
The Warrior Kings
Definitive Duels
Rule, Reconciliation and Repentance
PART FOUR: THE WHEELS OF WAR
Chapter 14 Under Siege
How to Crack a Castle
Anatomy of a Donjon
A Siege Worthy of a Song
Chapter 15 Raiders in the Riverlands
Life Outside the King’s Laws
Ride of the Reivers
The Price of Peace
Chapter 16 A Steamroller of Spears: Schiltrons & Battle Of The Bastards
The Schiltron’s Finest Hour
Caught in the Crush
Chapter 17 Firepower: Guns & Dragons
The Black Dread
Backfire
How Dragons & Cannons Changed the Rules
PART FIVE: THE LAWS OF GODS & MEN
Chapter 18 Gods & Monsters
When Giants Walked the Land
The Queen of Winter
Faces of the Old Gods
Chapter 19 The Last of the Free
Putting the ‘Free’ in Free Folk
Right to Rule?
No Man’s Lands
Chapter 20 A Red Wedding and A Black Dinner
Northern Hospitality
The Black Dinner
A Second Helping
In Cold Blood: The Massacre of Glencoe
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Plate section
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