Killing for Country

David Marr was shocked to discover his forebearsserved with the Native Police, the most brutal forcein Australian history. Killing for Country is the result -a personal history of the Frontier Wars.

Marr brings his experience as an investigativejournalist, an award-winning biographer and politicalanalyst to the story of a colonial family that seizedhundreds of thousands of acres of land and ledAboriginal troopers into bloody massacres in themost violent years of the Native Police.