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William Wallace: A Captivating Guide to a Freedom Fighter and Martyr Who Impacted Scottish History and Scotland’s Independence from England
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
Explore the captivating life of William Wallace!
You might recognize him from Mel Gibson's film Braveheart.
Sir William Wallace (c. 1270–1305) was - and is - a Scottish national icon of the highest order. Born as the landless younger son of a minor nobleman (Sir Malcolm Wallace), his startling rise to become a military and historical legend, an exemplary patriot, and a national hero is an embodiment of the underdog narrative that many people identify with in film and real life.
Wallace earned a place in history for his successful efforts in leading the Scottish resistance forces who had been rallying against English rule since Scotland was conquered in 1296.
Some of the topics covered in this book include:
- Mysterious origins
- Coming of age in crisis
- Defiance and compliance
- The prophecy
- Uprising
- Love in a time of war
- The Battle of Stirling Bridge
- Invading England
- The guardian of Scotland
- Defeat at Falkirk
- An outlaw once more
- The execution
- And much more
So if you want to discover more about the life of William Wallace, buy this audiobook now!
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- Ebba
- 11-09-18
National hero
Our son is a dedicated fan of William Wallace so when we were in Scotland recently we visited Stirling Castle and this book brought the history of a common man who became a national hero.
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- Dave Allan
- 16-09-22
Terrible
There is an interesting story there trying to get out but the American accent detracts from the Scottish story. Pronunciation of towns and locations is laughable. One to avoid I’m afraid.
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- miss s mackie
- 08-06-22
Place names
The history is good and the story well written but as it’s an American reading it a lot of the place names are horrendously read! Berwick, Edinburgh, Jedburgh, Dunfermline, Roxburgh and a lot more. It’s just awful. All it would have taken is one conversation with a Scottish person to ask how to pronounce them! Totally cringeworthy at times!
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- M. Pearsall
- 05-05-22
Great story but terrible narration.
The historical insight into Wallace’s life is brilliant and to my knowledge very accurate. But the audiobook is let down by the poor narration, in particular, the pronunciation of the towns and city’s. For the historical references it’s worth a listen.
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- Vicky b
- 05-01-22
Thoroughly enjoyable
Brilliant helped me as I would like to read more Audible great way to start
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- Phil Wain
- 25-11-21
Good account.
Sounded like it was being read by a robot which was a shame as the details were very good and enlightening. Obviously I knew that the film Braveheart was ridiculous but it was good that the film was scorned. Lots of details about Wallace were interesting and cleared up the fact.
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- Paul
- 07-02-21
Unusual pronunciation
Really if you are going to narrate things which relate to Scotland, you need to have enough connection with Scotland to understand how to pronounce names and places.
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- J F Jamieson
- 27-05-19
Good factual book terrible narration.
An interesting story ruined by a narrator who could not pronounce any of the place names correctly. This required frequent rewinding to try and work out where he was referring to. The Family names were also frequently mispronounced causing confusion. I almost gave up but, it was thankfully short.
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- Ben Collins
- 22-11-18
Terrible pronunciations
The narrator does not know how to pronounce any of the Scottish place names, again and again almost every single name is wrong; Edinburgh, Glasgow, Roxburgh, Celtic, Berwick, Loch Lomond.
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- Garry S.
- 24-09-18
Shocking narration
I think if you’re going to give an historical account via audio then its critical you get the pronunciations correct. The book was narrated by an American who just didn’t get some pronunciations wrong he got them all wrong and I mean all the towns and places which you would feel is very important when telling a story about history and a pivotal moment in Scottish heritage .. very very disappointing narration
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