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Bushveldt Carbineers: The War Against the Boers in South Africa and the 'bre - George Witton
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Bushveldt Carbineers: The War Against the Boers in South Africa and the 'bre - George Witton
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Short Description
A 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 '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 a...
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.