Murder or justice? This question is still being fiercely debated a century after Lieutenant Harry 'Breaker' 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. They were found guilty by court martial of murdering Boer prisoners. In popular vernacular 'shoot straight' means 'tell the truth'. The lies, deceit and political skulduggery behind these executions are exposed here for the first time.
The issue of Harry 'Breaker' Morant's guilt or innocence remains unresolved. In this work Nick Bleszynski asserts that the guilt for Morant's and Peter Handcock's deaths lies with Lord Kitchener.