Blood on the thistle
Subtitle: the heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice in the Great War
By: Stuart Pearson and Robert Mitchell
Contributors: Mitchell, Robert G.
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781784180751
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; TRAVEL; HISTORY; Museums, Tours, Points of Interest; Biography; History
Description: 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 the effects of the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe. Out of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.