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Breaker Morant: The Final Roundup

$59.95

Breaker Morant: The Final Roundup

SKU: 9781445659657 Category: Product ID: 13224

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Title: Breaker Morant: The Final Roundup
Author: WEST JOE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/12/2016
Imprint: UNKNOWN
Price: $59.95
Publishing status: Active

Over 100 years ago Harry Harbord Morant (the Breaker) was shot by a firing squad in Pretoria. Thus began his ascension to national hero. Over the years, Australians have managed to turn his disgrace into distinction, to the point where a vocal body is now seeking a British pardon for Morant.Workhouse-born Edwin Murrant, educated by the Freemasons, emigrated on a 1 passage to Australia at the age of nineteen. He found work on a cattle station in Queensland but, charged with stealing pigs, he was thrown out and spent the next sixteen years in Queensland as a bushman, balladeer and black sheep renowned for his riding skills. Changing his name, he joined the army and went to the Boer War in South Africa, eventually becoming a lieutenant in an irregular unit fighting in Northern Transvaal. Enraged by the death of a friend in battle, he organised the murder of prisoners, one of his soldiers and a priest by way of revenge.Arrested and tried, he was sentenced to death and shot, a climax to a life of vagabondage. 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 hand and paid the ultimate price for his crimes. This intensively researched book, featuring a wealth of new information, reveals the truth behind the legend.

ISBN: 9781445659657
Weight: 697g
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm
Pages: 384

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Weight 697 g
Dimensions 234 × 156 mm