HEROES OF MORE THAN A FOOTBALL FIELDContinuing Derek Niven's popular and successful 'Pride Series', Pride of the Hearts tells the fateful and tragic histories of the 16 Hearts players who signed up for McCrae's Battalion, the 16th Royal Scots, during the Great War. Learn of the desperate battles they fought on the Somme and at Arras, too many of them paying the ultimate sacrifice. The book also gives a fascinating insight into the genealogical histories of the Hear...

Derek Niven sets out to tell the history of the Lisbon Lions from a completely new slant. This book is not just about an immortalised game of football which took place on 25 May 1967 in the Estádio Nacionale in Lisbon. It seeks to tell the story of the unsung men and women who made the 16 players that are the Lisbon Lions through the extraordinary tales of their family histories.In this the 55th anniversary of the Lisbon Lions and the 135th anniversary of Brother Walfrid's first me...

Following on from Derek Niven's first book in the 'Pride Series', Pride of the Lions, a genealogical history of the Lisbon Lions, he turns his attention to the great football managers Scotland has produced in Pride of the Jocks. Once again, this book is not just about the footballing achievements of Scotland's greatest managers. It tells the story of the unsung men and women who made the 16 greatest managers, through the extraordinary tales of their family histories. Read...

This book stands as a humble tribute to all the men and women who helped shape the Rangers players who won the ECWC in Barcelona on that May night in 1972, in this the 50th anniversary of that famous victory. Following on from Derek Niven's genealogical histories of the Lisbon Lions and the greatest Scottish football managers, he turns his attention to the heroes of Rangers European Cup Winners Cup victory in Pride of the Bears. Like its predecessors this book is not just about the footbal...

The Wembley Wizards of 1966Following on from Derek Niven's genealogical histories in his Pride Series of footballing greats, Pride of the Three Lions turns its attention to the achievements of the England team who won the FIFA World Cup at Wembley in 1966.It tells their stories from the viewpoint of the unsung people who made them, journeying through periods of profound social changes, poverty, World Wars, and the Great Depression.These tales of family history help ...