{"id":131078,"date":"2020-09-25T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T03:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=131078"},"modified":"2020-10-14T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T04:08:37","slug":"relive-the-story-of-harry-breaker-morant-as-told-by-peter-fitzsimons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/relive-the-story-of-harry-breaker-morant-as-told-by-peter-fitzsimons\/","title":{"rendered":"Relive the story of Harry &#8216;Breaker&#8217; Morant, as told by Peter FitzSimons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/breaker-morant-peter-fitzsimons\/book\/9780733641305.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=booktoberfest_2020_peter_fitzsimons\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breaker-Morant.jpg\" alt=\"Breaker Morant - Peter FitzSimons\" class=\"wp-image-131080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breaker-Morant.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Breaker-Morant-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry &#8216;Breaker&#8217; Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet &#8211; murderer or hero?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With his trademark brilliant command of story, Peter Fitzsimons unravels the many myths and fictions that surround the life of Harry Morant and the Boer War in his brand new work of history, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/breaker-morant-peter-fitzsimons\/book\/9780733641305.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=booktoberfest_2020_peter_fitzsimons\">Breaker Morant<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (released October 27th from Hachette Australia Books).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let Fitzy himself introduce you to this fascinating story himself by way of the Battle of Elands River &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Peter Fitzsimons tells the story of &#039;The Battle of Elands River&#039;\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GTCysv2zB8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong> This book is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/booktoberfest\/promo100.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=booktoberfest_2020_peter_fitzsimons\">Booktoberfest<\/a>, the festival of new books!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/booktoberfest\/promo100.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=booktoberfest_2020_peter_fitzsimons\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Booktoberfest-ExploreNow.jpg\" alt=\"Booktoberfest 2020 - Explore Now\" class=\"wp-image-131565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Booktoberfest-ExploreNow.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Booktoberfest-ExploreNow-300x78.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate Booktoberfest 2020 with Peter FitzSimons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":130905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[715,11903,11917,2434,4244],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/booktoberfest-blog-social.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131078"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132009,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131078\/revisions\/132009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}