Scapegoats of the Empire was written by George Witton, the third of three men (the other two were executed by firing squad) convicted for the shooting of prisoners during the (second) Boer War.
Says Wikipedia: "Witton's main assertion, as indicated by the book's provocative title, is that he, Morant, and Handcock were made scapegoats by the British authorities in South Africa—that they were made to take the blame for widespread British war crimes against the Boers, and that the trial and executions were carried out by the British for political reasons, partly to cover up a controversial and secret "no prisoners" policy promulgated by Lord Kitchener, and partly to appease the Boer government over the killing of Boer prisoners, in order to facilitate a peace treaty; the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed on 31 May 1902."
The story was the basis for the 1980 film "Breaker Morant," and the book was suppressed during WWI and WWII for being "inflammatory and anti-British."
Published in 1907, so PD in the US. Witton died in 1942, so it's PD in life +50 countries, but not life +70 countries until 2013.
Available at PG Australia: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400611.txt
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