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The Flockmasters

(1960)
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Book DescriptionA hero of the Peninsular War, Lieutenant Alastair McRory of Gleneidart returns home to Wester Ross to recuperate from a wound he suffered while fighting with the Highland regiments in Spain. When he arrives he is shocked to find his fellow clansmen being brutally dispossessed of their lands.

While the men of his regiment are fighting and dying for King and Country in the Peninsular, their families are being evicted and sent to Canada by the flockmasters--shrewd, unscrupulous businessmen who want the land for their sheep. Forced to take sides in this desperate struggle for the land, Alastair McRory risks everything as he confromts the ruthless flockmasters.







Genre: Historical

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