The battlefields of Britain are a strangely neglected part of our national heritage. In this book John Kinross describes sixty-nine battles that took place on English or Scottish soil, from King Alfred's defeat of the Danes at Ashdown in 871 to the final crushing of the Jacobite cause in the snow at Culloden on 16th April 1746. He sets each battle in its historical context, describes the action in relation to the landscape and gives a guide to the site as it is today.