The Wallace: Selections

Long before the movie Braveheart, William Wallace's ferocious pursuit of independence for Scotland was chronicled by a Scottish poet known only as Hary or Blind Hary. As Anne McKim notes in her introduction, "The Wallace catalogues the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of buildings full of screaming inhabitants that the smells and sounds, as well as the terrible sights of war, are graphically conveyed... [in language which] seems designed not only to express Wallace's rage and Hary's antipathy but also to incite hatred of the English in his readers."Henry is the author of 'The Wallace: Selections' with ISBN 9781580440769 and ISBN 1580440762.