The King Over the Water: a Complete History of the Jacobites

Jacobitism is one of history’s great lost causes.  Jacobites are generally remembered, like the cavaliers of the English civil war, as “wrong but romantic”, a doomed cause in which loyalty was repaid with penury and exile.  Here, Timothy Brook tells the story of Jacobitism as a serious political force in English and Irish, as well as Scottish politics over the course of the 18^th century, covering the wars of 1689, 1715 and 1745, and the interludes of increasingly desperate political intrigue.  A good book to read in a year when Scottish independence is becoming a serious issue in British politics.  What goes around, comes around.