The authors claim that this is not a work of historical imagination Carnegie has researched the Morant story with impartiality and with a thoroughness unequalled by others who have sought to tell the story of The Breaker.
Harry ‘Breaker’ Harbord Morant (9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal whose skill with horses earned him the nickname The Breaker”. The bulk of his published work appeared in The Bulletin magazine.
During service in the Second Boer War