Bushveldt Carbineers: The War Against the Boers in South Africa and the 'bre - George Witton

Bushveldt Carbineers: The War Against the Boers in South Africa and the 'bre - George Witton

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Short Description

Full bibliographic data for Bushveldt Carbineers

Title

Bushveldt Carbineers

Subtitle

The War Against the Boers in South Africa and the 'breaker' Morant Incident

Authors and contributors

By (author) George Witton

Physical properties

Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
Width: 140 mm
Height: 216 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight: 295 g

Audience

College/higher education
General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9781846773358
ISBN 10: 1846773350

Classifications

BISAC category code:HIS027000
BISAC category code:BIO008000
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:T4.2
BICMainSubject:JW
BICMainSubject:BG

Illustrations note

black & white illustrations

Publisher

Leonaur Ltd

Imprint name

Leonaur Ltd

Publication date

30 October 2007

Publication City/Country

Driffield/GB

Main description

A war without pity on the South African veldtGeorge 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 'gentleman's 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.