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John Prebble "bad design, bad construction and bad maintenance". The "Fire and Sword Trilogy" is about the fall of the Scottish clan system. "Culloden" was the first book and it chronicles the defeat of the clans in one pivotal battle. The two other works were "The Highland Clearances" (1963) and "Glencoe" (1966). "Glencoe" was a study of the causes and effects of the Glencoe massacre in 1692, when British soldiers and members of the Campbell Clan attacked and killed members of Clan Donald who lived in Glencoe, a remote glen in the west highlands of Scotland. The book focuses on the political