BREAKER MORANT AND THE BUSHVELDT CARBINEERS

Breaker Morant,the bold swashbuckler who faced a firing-squad in Pretoria in 1902 and was later enshrined,together with his friend Peter Handcock,as a ''scapegoat'' of callous British Imperialists,has become the centrepiece of an enduring legend. He has been portrayed in biographies and novels,on the screen and on the stage.The time has come to chip away inaccuracies and mis-conceptions to provide more credible foundations.... Drawing on sources in South Africa and elsewhere,as well as publishing a large selection of important documents,Dr Arthur Davey has sought and found definite or probable answers to a number of hitherto unresolved issues.Did Kitchener give secret verbal orders that no Boer prisoners were to be taken?Was this harsh autocrat ill-disposed towards Ausralian ''Colonials''? Were the groups of Boers who were shot ''train wreckers and marauders'' as Morant asserted?Were the courts-martial rigged? Underlying the trials was there an intent to placate Imperial Germany? .................Tipped black and white Frontispiece-lxv +238 pages text with illustrations.VRS Second Series Number 18.No Marks...Spine slight sunning