y separately published work icon Shoot Straight, You Bastards! : The Truth Behind the Killing of 'Breaker' Morant single work   biography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Shoot Straight, You Bastards! : The Truth Behind the Killing of 'Breaker' Morant
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
* AustLit's TAL data covers the period 2009-2016, with a small number of courses logged in 2008. Data for 2013 is estimated to cover only half of the eligible courses. Please use this data with caution and contact us if you plan to use it in research or analysis.

Units Teaching this Work

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Shoot Straight, You Bastards! : The Truth Behind the Killing of 'Breaker' Morant Nick Bleszynski , Milsons Point : Random House Australia , 2002 Z943204 2002 single work biography (taught in 1 units)

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.

 		Australian Historical Studies Queensland University of Technology 2012 (Semester 2)
X