This detailed account of the tragedy of Glencoe is in reality Vol.
I of a trilogy of Scottish tragedies by the same author; the other
volumes, not yet published in America, are Gulloden and The
Clearances. The Campbells of Argyll and the MacDonalds of Glencoe
(Glencoe is a gash in the Western Highlands) had for years feuded
with each other, raiding, stealing, murdering, but the attack of
the Campbells on the Glencoe MacDonalds was no ordinary raid. It
was a political killing, nourished on hatreds and ambitions and
engineered by Sir John Dalrymple, Secretary of State for Scotland,
a Lowlander who had never seen the Highlands. Using as an excuse
for the attack a delay by the MacDonald chief in swearing
allegiance to King William III, in January, 1962, Dalrymple sent an
Argyll regiment of Campbells to Glencoe with secret orders to
slaughter the entire clan under cover of friendship, an
unforgivable violation of the inviolable code of Highland
hospitality. At dawn on Feb. 13 the Campbells fell on their hosts,
butchering at least 38 of them; the rest of the clan escaped in a
blinding snowstorm. "Glencoe," writes the author of this exciting
book, "is the only recorded attempt at genocide in the history of
the English peoples." The statement is open to question: genocide
is a large term and the Glencoe MacDonalds were a small clan, not a
nation or race. The book will appeal to Scotsmen and lovers of
Scotland, but Sassenach readers may find many of its references
confusing. A somewhat different version of the part played by
William III in the affair will be found in Vol. II of Nesca Robb's
excellent biography, William of Orange. (p. 657).?? (Kirkus
Reviews)
'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of
Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the
treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13
February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the
MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident
which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the
destruction of the Highlanders. John Prebble's masterly description
of the terrible events at Glencoe was praised as 'Evocative and
powerful' in the Sunday Telegraph.
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