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Condition: Very good
Format: Large softcover
Published: 2002 (Random House Australia)
Pages: 386
ISBN: 9781740510813
A fascinating insight into Breaker Morant and the question of morality and human life.
The question of The Breakers innocence 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 much the same way that Bruce Beresfords award-winning feature film Breaker Morant captured the popular imagination, Shoot Straight, You Bastards! is an explosive read, as controversial an event today as it was 101 years ago.
In every war there is a character like Morant a buckjumper who ends up on the wrong side of the great cause. This updated edition includes an appendix containing dramatic new evidence that Kitchener gave orders to take no prisoners. Expert legal opinion supporting the Breakers innocence and a strong campaign to secure a proper judicial review combine here in a story Australians have waited more than a century to read!
