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Bushveldt Carbineers : The War Against the Boers in South Africa and the 'Breaker' Morant Incident by George Witton (2007, Perfect)

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PublisherLeonaur The Limited

ISBN-101846773350

ISBN-139781846773358

eBay Product ID (ePID)63886057

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Book TitleBushveldt Carbineers : the War Against the Boers in South Africa and the 'breaker' Morant Incident

Number of Pages228 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

TopicCultural Heritage, Military / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Military

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorGeorge Witton

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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SynopsisA war without pity on the South African veldt George Witton was a member of the Bushveldt Carbineers-a mounted, highly mobile unit trained to hunt down its Boer counterparts of the Commandos during the Boer War at the turn of the 20th century. Theirs was no gentlemans war which took account of for fair play and the rules of war-it was a kill or be killed existence of ambushes, night attacks and summary executions in which neither side could claim non-participation. War became a personal business for Witton and his fellow Carbineers-Morant and Handcock-as brother officers were found murdered and brutalised and prisoners were caught bearing their personal effects. Matters came to a head with the infamous courts-marshal of some of the Bushveldt Carbineers and the execution of some and imprisonment of others in a scandal that rocked the British Empire and struck to the core of the relationship between the mother country and one of its most loyal colonies.