All Men Are Brethren: Prisoners of War in Scotland, 1803–1814

The culmination of 20 years of research and writing, this reference relays a comprehensive and detailed history of the thousands of French prisoners of war held in Scotland during the Napoleonic Wars. Describing the conditions at each Scots depot and explaining in vivid detail how the prisoners passed their years in captivity—gambling, forging banknotes, keeping pets, and even playing cricket—the stories in this history offer lasting impressions about the life of a prisoner of war, which echo those of the present.