The Breaker
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in Australian history have ignited as much controversy, romance, and moral outrage as Harry Breaker Morant — bushman, poet, horseman, and soldier — whose court-martial and execution during the Boer War remains one of the most contested episodes in the nation's military past. Kit Denton's bestselling chronicle reconstructs the extraordinary life of this enigmatic man, tracing his journey from the dusty stockyards of the Australian outback to the killing fields of South Africa, where the lines between duty, revenge, and murder collapsed under the strain of a brutal colonial war. Denton writes with the authority of a seasoned researcher and the pace of a thriller novelist, presenting a portrait of a man simultaneously celebrated as a larrikin hero and condemned as a cold-blooded killer. The book raises enduring questions about justice, imperial loyalty, and the cost of war that continue to haunt the Australian national conscience. Whether Morant was a scapegoat sacrificed by the British military establishment or a man who genuinely crossed the line remains an open verdict — one that The Breaker leaves the reader to weigh long after the final page is turned.
Author: Kit Denton
Format: Paperback
Published: 1986, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in Australian history have ignited as much controversy, romance, and moral outrage as Harry Breaker Morant — bushman, poet, horseman, and soldier — whose court-martial and execution during the Boer War remains one of the most contested episodes in the nation's military past. Kit Denton's bestselling chronicle reconstructs the extraordinary life of this enigmatic man, tracing his journey from the dusty stockyards of the Australian outback to the killing fields of South Africa, where the lines between duty, revenge, and murder collapsed under the strain of a brutal colonial war. Denton writes with the authority of a seasoned researcher and the pace of a thriller novelist, presenting a portrait of a man simultaneously celebrated as a larrikin hero and condemned as a cold-blooded killer. The book raises enduring questions about justice, imperial loyalty, and the cost of war that continue to haunt the Australian national conscience. Whether Morant was a scapegoat sacrificed by the British military establishment or a man who genuinely crossed the line remains an open verdict — one that The Breaker leaves the reader to weigh long after the final page is turned.