Mosul

Focusing on the stories of key figures like 2 Commando’s Ian Turner and one of Australia’s most infamous Jihadist, Khaled Sharrouf, McKelvey brings recent history to life in this compelling examination of modern warfare and counter-terrorism efforts.–Peter Masters, NATIONAL [PRINT] Australian Defence Magazine, [AUDIENCE: 4,028, ASR: AUD 826]The narrative is briskly told, in the as-though-you-were-there style associated with Peter Fitzsimons.–Ben Mckelvey, NSW + TAS [PRINT], Sunday Examiner, Area News, (ACM Syndicate) [AUDIENCE: 17,524, ASR: AUD 2,651]Inclusion–PRINT [PRINT] Courier Mail [AUDIENCE: 166,502 ASR: AUD 3,221]Review–ACT [PRINT] The Canberra Weekly (date TBC)Review–NATIONAL [PRINT] Australian & NZ Defender Magazine (Date TBC)Review–NATIONAL [PRINT] Defence Connect Magazine (Date TBC)Review–NATIONAL [PRINT] Wartime Magazine

Ben Mckelvey is an author, journalist and editor. Ben’s books have won the Australian Independent Book Award for non-fiction, an Australian Book Industry Award and the Nib Military History Prize and they have been shortlisted in the Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Les Carlyon Literary Prize. Ben has been the editor of Mr Jones, Sports&Style and Juice magazines and worked at the Sydney Morning Herald as a Senior Feature Writer. As a freelance writer, Ben has been embedded with the ADF in East Timor and Iraq, and has worked independently in Iran, Syria and Afghanistan.