The Path of the Hero King Author:Nigel Tranter Robert the Bruce...rising from the ashes of defeat to the stirring triumph at Bannockburn, blazes the path of the hero king, in blood and violence and determination, in cunning and ruthlessness, yet, strangely, in mercy and chivalry, all the way from an ill-starred night landing on the Ayrshire coast, to near despair in a spider-hung Galloway ca... more »ve, to Bannockburn itself-and the real beginning of Scotland's nationhood.« less