Breaker Morant : the final roundup / Joe West & Roger Roper.

Author
West, Joe [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2016.
Description
384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "Workhouse-born Edwin Murrant, educated by the Freemasons, emigrated ... to Australia at the age of nineteen and found work on a cattle station in Queensland. Murrant spent the next sixteen years in Australia as a bushman, balladeer and all-round chancer renowned for his riding skills. Changing his name to Harry Harbord Morant, he claimed to be the son of an admiral. At the start of the Anglo-Boer war he joined the army and went to South Africa, eventually becoming a lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers, an irregular unit fighting in Northern Transvaal. Enraged by the death of a friend in battle, he instigated the murder of prisoners by way of revenge. A missionary who knew too much was also killed under suspicious circumstances. Arrested and tried, he was sentenced to death and shot. Australians suggest he did not have a 'fair go' and was martyred by Lord Kitchener. Others remain fixed in their opinions: he took the law into his own hands and paid the ultimate price for his crimes. This intensively researched book, featuring a wealth of new information, reveals the truth behind the legend of Breaker Morant."--Jacket.
    Notes
    • "Horseman, bush balladeer, war criminal"--Jacket.
    • Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: pages 348-349.
    Contents
    • The early days
    • The teenage Murrant
    • The Morants
    • Mrs Morant
    • The wilderness years
    • The Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC)
    • The old country
    • Alfred 'Bulala' Taylor : the Rhodesian soldier
    • Events in Northern Transvaal
    • The rise of the Tenterfield star
    • Arrest to execution
    • Aftermath
    • Some went home.
    ISBN
    • 1445659654
    • 9781445659657 ((hardback))
    OCLC
    949866245
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