Blood on the Thistle The Tragic Story of the Cranston Family and Their Remarkable Sacrifice in the Great War

Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by World War I, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served in World War I, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifice on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days. This is the tale of how a once proud and inspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.

ISBN:	9781784183349
Publisher:	John Blake
Imprint:	John Blake Publishing
Published date:	02 Apr 2015
DEWEY:	941.36
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xxii, 314 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	252g
Height:	199mm
Width:	130mm
Spine width:	23mm

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