Rogue Forces
An explosive insiders' account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan
$23.94
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2023
Summary
Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Literary Award’s Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award.
Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders’ story of how some of Australia’s revered SAS soldiers crossed the line in Afghanistan, descending from elite warriors to unlawful killers.
Mark Willacy, who …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761421471 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761421476 |
| Author: | Mark Willacy |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 197mm x 205mm |
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Critics Review
’[T]his brilliant and courageous book should be required reading for anyone seeking to paint our most recent military adventure as morally unambiguous. As Willacy shows, the “moral injury” sustained by many veterans was often a case of friendly fire.’ * The Australian *
About The Author
Mark Willacy
Mark Willacy has been a journalist for more than 25 years and has reported for the ABC from more than 30 countries.
Mark is a seven-time Walkley Award winner and in 2020 he was awarded Australia’s highest honour in journalism, the Gold Walkley, for exposing alleged Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan. His winning Four Corners report ‘Killing Field’ made headlines around the world and sparked a federal police war crimes investigation. Willacy’s investigations provided evidence for 12 cases named in the Brereton Report, the independent Australian Defence Force inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016.
As the ABC’s Middle East correspondent for four years, Mark reported on the ground from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the 2003 war in Iraq. He was also the Japan correspondent in 2011 when the country was hit by its most powerful earthquake in more than a thousand years.
Mark has twice been named Queensland Journalist of the Year and in 2019 he won a Logie Award for his Four Corners’ world exclusive on the Thai cave rescue.
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