The explosion of a romantic bubble in a blind welter of courage and carnage. For years the rose-ringled legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the black memory of Butcher Cumberland have blossomed side by side. Here, from contemorary memoirs, letters, newspapers, and regimental order books, Prebble reconstructs the Common Man's version of the moorland battle and the months of repression and brutality that followed it. Their bellies empty, their leaders at odds, the ground ill-chosen, the Highlanders were made sitting targets for the Royal Artillery at Culloden. This is the story of what ordinary men and women suffered in the Rebellion for a cause that was never theirs...

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