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Breaker Morant : the final roundup / Joe West & Roger Roper.
Author
West, Joe
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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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U55.M573 W47 2016
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Subject(s)
South African War, 1899-1902
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Atrocities
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Soldiers
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Australia
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Biography
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Soldiers
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South Africa
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Biography
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Trials (Military offenses)
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South Africa
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Great Britain Army Bushveldt Carbineers
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Biography
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Morant, Breaker 1864?-1902
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Author
Roper, Roger
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Summary note
"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.
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ISBN
1445659654
9781445659657 ((hardback))
OCLC
949866245
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