Breaker Morant : the final roundup / Joe West & Roger Roper
- Bib ID:
- 7339013
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- West, Joe, author
- Description:
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- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2016
- 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 1445659654 (hardback)
- 9781445659657 (hardback)
- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
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- "Horseman, bush balladeer, war criminal"--Jacket.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 348-349.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Roper, Roger, author
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1990
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