The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo Scottish Border Reivers (London: Barrie & Jenkins) is a 1971 historical non-fiction book by George MacDonald Fraser about the Border Reivers.
Fraser researched the book with his wife.George MacDonald Fraser, The Light's On at Signpost, HarperCollins 2002 p304-307 It concentrates mainly on the 16th century, and seeks to de-glamourise the period in some ways.The age of the Borderers. Hugh Trevor-Roper. The Sunday Times (London, England), Sunday, October 31, 1971; pg. 41; Issue 7743.
The Daily Telegraph called it "a vigorous and valuable book." References