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A STORY OF COMBAT, CRICKET, AND THE SAS

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FROM READERS

“A superbly evocative story of cricket and war. It’s not just cricket. And it’s not just war. It’s both, and it is compelling.”

PETER FITZSIMONS

“A compelling soldier’s story of combat, survival and backyard cricket in a war zone. Harry Moffitt’s unforgotten wars make an unforgettable story.”

JIM MAXWELL

“To read Harry’s book is to live an extraordinary life side-by-side with a remarkable individual…and his family, friends and ‘brothers’. He ‘who dares wins’…and every so often one will write a book and tell you the bare honest truth of loss, love, recovery and perseverance. Harry’s story is the story of this generations ANZACs. His story is our history.

TONY RIDLEY

“Rare and very human insights to the work that we have asked you to do over the past 20 yrs, to get the other side of the story that is dominant in the media at the moment, it is exactly the book that the country needs to get the full picture.”

GARETH PARKER, 6PR

“ I finished this book in two days. All I can say is, get your hands of a copy and read it. [The book] was profoundly good. [The] book is honest without being overly emotional or weepy. It’s unapologetic in its truthfulness. Not just about war, but what it did to the author and does to others. It doesn’t f%#k around. And it makes clear the cost, but doesn’t ask for sympathy.

It’s a bloody triumph.”

GEMMA TOGNINI, JOURNALIST, THE WEST & SKY

“This book has wisdom in spades. It has pathos, humour, action, suspense, raw emotion and deep insight into the Australian Special Air Service Regiment by one of its longest serving members. As a fan of quality books, I highly recommend Eleven Bats.”

Alex Loyd, Commissioning Editor at Pan Macmillan Australia

“Eleven Bats should stand among classics of Australian war stories.”

JEFF MAYNARD, VERDICT: CONFRONTING

“11 Bats is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary individual. It is gripping, and should be mandatory reading for anyone wanting to better understand the pressures on individuals and the organisation in that – or any other – campaign. No other memoir that I have read (and I’ve read more than a few) provides such human insights or captures the tragedy and the humour of war so well.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anthony ‘Harry’ Moffitt recently retired from the Australian Defence Force after almost 30 years, most of which was spent with Australia’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment as a Team Commander and Team Specialist.

He has completed 11 active service deployments, including being wounded in action in 2008. Harry completed his time with the SAS as its Human Performance Manager.

He’s a Registered Psychologist and runs a human performance consultancy working with sports teams, the military and industry.