Illustrated. The culmination of 20 years of research and writing, this reference relays a comprehensive and detailed history of the thousands of French prisoners of war held in Scotland during the Napoleonic Wars. Describing the conditions at each Scots depot and explaining in vivid detail how the prisoners passed their years in captivity trying to escape, gambling, forging banknotes, keeping pets, and even playing cricket… First Edition. 905 pages, index, notes, bibliography, black & white photographs, map.