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Eleven bats : a story of combat, cricket and the SAS

Title
Eleven bats : a story of combat, cricket and the SAS / Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt.
Author
Moffitt, Anthony
Publication
  • Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
  • ©2020

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Description
xvi, 366 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits; 24 cm
Summary
Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than 20 years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and respected figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of backyard cricket was often the circuit-breaker Harry and his team needed after the tension of operations. Recognizing the effect of the game on his fellow soldiers, he began a tradition of organising games and matches wherever he was sent, whether it was in the mountains of East Timor with a fugitive rebel leader, or on the dusty streets of Baghdad, or in exposed Forward Operating Bases in the hills of Afghanistan. Soldiers, locals and even visiting politicians played in these spontaneous yet often bridge-building games. As part of the tradition Harry also started to take a cricket bat with him on operational tours, eleven of them in total across his career. They'd travel with him, often go outside the wire with him, and end up signed by those he met or fought alongside. These eleven bats have formed the basis for Harry's extraordinary memoir. It's a book about combat, and what it takes to serve in one of the world's most elite formations. It's a book about the toll that war takes on soldiers and their loved ones. And it's a book about the healing power of cricket, and how a game can cross boundaries and break down borders even in the most desperate of circumstances.
Alternative Title
11 bats
Subject
  • Moffitt, Anthony
  • Australia. Australian Army. Special Air Service Regiment > Biography
  • Australia. Australian Army. Special Air Service Regiment
  • Australia. Australian Army > Commando troops > Biography
  • Australia. Australian Army
  • Special forces (Military science) > Australia > Biography
  • Armed Forces > Commando troops
  • Special forces (Military science)
  • Australia
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
Contents
Searching for UBL -- Driving General Molan -- The missing bat -- First in -- Dili on fire -- The emergency -- Vale Sean -- The general spin -- The surge -- Retirement calling -- Gandamak's last stand -- Epilogue: twelfth man.
Call Number
JFE 21-2817
ISBN
  • 9781760877842
  • 1760877840
OCLC
1199011871
Author
Moffitt, Anthony, author.
Title
Eleven bats : a story of combat, cricket and the SAS / Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt.
Publisher
Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFE 21-2817
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