Shoot straight, you bastards!

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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.

subjects: Atrocities,  Biography,  Great Britain,  Great Britain. Army. Bushveldt Carbineers,  Soldiers,  South African War, 1899-1902,  Trials (Military offenses),  Trials, litigation,  Morant, Breaker (1865-1902)

People: Breaker Morant (1865-1902),  Peter Handcock (d. 1902)

Places: Australia,  South Africa