The movie Braveheart got everything about Scotland and the Scottish fight for freedom wrong, and you'll enjoy reading the real story. Gibson made a fun movie, but it had nothing to do with Scotland. That is too bad because the real story of the Scottish fight against conquest and the struggle of Robert the Bruce and his followers from the depths of defeat is more interesting than anything Gibson put in the movie. In A Kingdom's Cost, I tell the real story of young James Douglas who became Robert the Bruce's most faithful and, at time, terrifying lieutenant and follower.