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The Appin Murder - The Killing That Shook a Nation (Paperback)
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The Appin Murder - The Killing That Shook a Nation (Paperback)
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On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May
1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin
Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he's
evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell's
killer evades capture, but Britain's rulers insist this challenge
to their authority must result in a hanging. The sacrificial victim
is James Stewart, who is organising resistance to Campbell's
takeover of lands long held by his clan, the Appin Stewarts. James
is a veteran of the Highland uprising crushed in April 1746 at
Culloden. In Duror he sees homes torched by troops using terror
tactics against rebel Highlanders. The same brutal response to
dissent means that James's corpse will for years hang from a
towering gibbet and leave a community utterly ravaged. Introducing
this new and updated edition of his account of what came to be
called the Appin Murder, historian James Hunter tells how his own
Duror upbringing introduced him to the tragic story of James
Stewart.
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