Shoot Straight, You Bastards! Australians in the Boer War: the Breaker Morant Case by Martine Piquet

“…The fairness of the court-martial has since been disputed and, rightly or wrongly, Morant has become a folk hero in Australia, as a symbol of the reckless defiance of the underdog towards the authorities. …”
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Idigey: a Historical Personality and its Assessment in Russian Historiography by Izmailov I.L.

“…In the first half of the 20th century. historians and folklorists were influenced by the ideas of class struggle and tried to present him as a folk hero fighting against feudal oppression, which was undoubtedly a distortion of the facts. …”
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Kraljevic Marko from Serbian Folk Songs among Poles in the 19th Century by Dejan Ajdacic

“…The Polish language’s earliest mention of Prince Marko as a folk hero appears in the 1804 travel diary of Prince A. …”
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