Nick Bleszynski - Shoot Straight, You Bastards!

The question is still being fiercely debated more than a century after Lieutenant Harry Morant and Lieutenant Peter Handcock were shot on a lonely veldt outside Pretoria at dawn on 27 February, 1902, by a British military firing squad.

Shoot Straight, You Bastards! Is a universal account of greed, ambition and the power of the political machine that crushes anyone who gets in the way.
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’. This updated edition uncovers dramatic new evidence the Kitchener gave orders ‘take no prisoners’ – a charge both Kitchener and the British government denied. Expert legal opinion supporting the belief that Morant and Handcock’s convictions were ‘unsafe’ and a strong campaign to secure an independent judicial receive combine here in an explosive story that Australians have waited a century to read.