In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted & then betrayed into famine & poverty While their chiefs grew rich on meat & wool the people died of cholera & starvation or evicted from the glens to make way for sheep were forced to emigrate to foreign lands Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness & emptiness of the northern Highlands today' The Times