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 won ...

On 11 March 2011, Japan was rocked by the most violent earthquake in her history and one of the largest ever recorded. The quake itself was just the start of a chain of disastrous events, creating a massive tsunami that slammed the shores of north eastern Japan. Close to 20,000 people were killed or disappeared under waves that reached more than 40 metres high as they smashed their way several kilometres inland.Yet the greatest damage was caused when the tsunami surged over the sea...

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 won ...

From 2002 to 2006, Mark Willacy was the ABC's Middle East Correspondent, based in Jerusalem. His apartment sat perched over the Hinnon Valley, the Biblical Valley of Hell, a fact that seemed aptly symbolic given that his tour in the Middle East saw him observe first-hand some of the most dramatic and violent events of the 21st century - from the second Palestinian Intifada to the US invasion of Iraq and the vicious insurgency that followed.His account of these four turbule...