Shoot straight, you bastards!
Subtitle: the truth behind the killing of "Breaker" Morant
By: Nick Bleszynski ; [foreword by Tim Fischer].
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Milsons Point, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Morant, Breaker, 1865-1902; Morant, Breaker, 1865-1902 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Handcock, Peter, d. 1902 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Great Britain. Army. Bushveldt Carbineers -- Biography; Trials (Military offenses) -- South Africa; Soldiers -- Australia -- Biography; Soldiers -- South Africa -- Biography; South African War, 1899-1902 -- Atrocities; South African War, 1899-1902 -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Murder or justice? This question is still being fiercely debated a century after Lieutenant harry Morant and Lieutenant Peter Handcock were shot on a lonely veldt outside Pretoria at dawn on 27th February 1902, by a British military firing squad. They were found guilty by court martial of murdering Boer prisoners, but claimed they received orders from Lord Kitchener to 'take no prisoners' - charge both Kitchener and the British government denied. In every war there is a character like Morant - a buckjumper, bush balladeer and rebellious spirit who ends up on the wrong side of the 'great cause'.-- back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-386).