Closed File. The True Story Behind the Execution of Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock
Published by Adelaide: Rigby, 1983, 1983
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Seller: The Last Post Bookshop, Holbrook, NSW, AustraliaThe Last Post Bookshop
AbeBooks seller since August 5, 2002
Condition: Used
£ 38.16
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Cloth, h/c. Very Good/Very Good and Protected. First Edition. 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". P160, b/w illustrations, previous owner's signature and date on first title page. slight shelf wear to edge of boards at spine, o/w v.g., this is the story of a cover-up. It is the true story behind the executions of Lieutantants Harry Harbord Morant and Peter Joseph Handcock at Pretoria Gaol on February 27, 1902, which has never been told before. The author describes the circumstances that led to the Boer War recruiting in Australia, the political situation in Britain at the turn of the 19th/20th century, Kitchener's tactics, the birth of guerilla warfare and reconstructs the incidents which Morant and Handcock were court martialled.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Closed File. The True Story Behind the Execution of Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock
- Author
- Kit Denton
- Publisher
- Adelaide: Rigby, 1983
- Publication year
- 1983
The Last Post Bookshop
Holbrook, NSW, Australia
AbeBooks seller since August 5, 2002
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We specialise out of print miltary, history, Australiana, and all types of craft books and thousands of patterns for knitting, crochet and related crafts. We also have other "unique" one of a kind books which surface from time to time. Our shop is off the Hume Highway at Holrook between Sydney and Melbourne in NSW "the submarine town", The shop is at the old ambulance station, cnr Hume and Albury Streets, Holbrook.
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