The Steel Bonnets -- the Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
It is a highly factual portrait of the "the raiders, cattle thieves, and protection racketeers on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border who preyed on each other and feuded continually until they were stopped by the lawful and more efficient brutalities of James I early in the seventeenth century." Among the names of the major perpetraters of these activities for which background information is provided are: Armstrong, Beattie, Bell, Burn, Charlton, Collingwood, Croser, Dacre, Dodd,Elliot, Fenwick, Forster,Graham, Hall, Heatherington, Hume, Irvine, Johnstone, Kerr, Laidlaw, Little, Lowther, Maxwell, Milburn, Musgrave, Nixon, Pringle, Ridley, Robson, Rutherford, Routledge, Scott, Storey, Tait, Trotter and Turnbull. Is your name among them? You'll find lots of stories about the way your ancestors lived and behaved.

Quartered Safe Out Here is the story of Fraser's experiences as a young infantryman in the jungles of Burma in World War II. It is a tale of life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with which the author served in the last great land campaign of that conflict, when the 17th Black Cat Division captured a vital strongpoint deep in Japanese territory and held it against counter-attack. and spearheaded the final assault in which the Japanese armies were, to quote the Allied commander, General Slim, "torn ap[art." Critics hailed this book to be as good as anything that Fraser has written , decorated with the beautifully-observed dialog of which he is a master, a moving and penetrating contribution to the Burma campaign that deserves to be read by a wider audience. The sense of front-line danger is palpable and the smell of action is remarkable.