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  • Scapegoats of the Empire
    Edward Witton
    During the Boer War in South Africa, Australian George Ramsdale Witton (1874 -1942) served as a lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers until he was sentenced to death for murder after the shooting of nine Boer prisoners.Witton’s scathing political indictment of the British Empire during the Boer War, originally published in 1907. The basis for the movie 'Breaker Morant'. Witton...
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  • Scapegoats of the Empire
    Edward Witton / George Witton
    According to persistent rumours, the Australian government suppressed the book because its untold story of a slice of colonial history was an embarrassment to the British Empire.  Opens a window on the Boer War, politics of the empire, and the life of enlisted soldiers of the time. George Witton’s Scapegoats of the Empire was published in 1907; however, only seven copies of th...
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