THE FATAL LAND: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America.

First edition, first printing. Original black paper-covered boards lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper with an illustration from George Grant's 'The New Highland Military Discipline' (1757). A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Very small dink to the upper edge of the rear panel. In the fine, unclipped dustwrapper, with just a touch of crumpling to the lower edge of the spine. A lovely copy.

"More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire" (from the publisher).