Andrew Fisher (1) (1935–)

The writer doesn't deserve 3 stars, but the subject area does. Andrew Fisher must belong to a type of historian that looks at history in hindsight and as such does not tell a story as it was experienced, chronologically. Instead he rambles back and forth, referring to coming events, jumping in time. He also seems to assume that every aspect of William Wallace's life is already known to the reader, and it is the author's only task to comment on that knowledge. Having said this, I am more intrigued by the character William Wallace than before I read Fisher's book, the man who virtually singelhandedly took on the arrogant king of England, Edward I, the man who aroused the people of Scotland to fight a mighty enemy against all odds, and who lost but still won. He got his film (Braveheart), now he derves a proper book. This is not it.… (más)