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The Junior Officers' Reading Club - Killing Time and Fighting Wars (Paperback)
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The Junior Officers' Reading Club - Killing Time and Fighting Wars (Paperback)
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Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid,
witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war.
Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of
Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties reading
books at university, going out, listening to house music and
watching war films. He also, as an officer in the Grenadier guards,
fought in some of the most violent combat the British army has seen
in decades. Telling the story of how a modern soldier is made, from
the testosterone-heavy breeding ground of Sandhurst to the
nightmare of Iraq and Afghanistan, The Junior Officers' Reading
Club is already being hailed as a modern classic. 'Soldiers who can
write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in 40
seconds' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times 'An extraordinary memoir
... Hennessey has a reporter's eye for detail and a soldier's nose
for bullshit' John Shirley, Guardian 'High tempo, full-on, honest
and revealing' Patrick Bishop, Evening Standard 'The most
accomplished work of military witness to emerge from British
war-fighting since 1945' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Remarkable ...
conveys vividly what it's like to experience combat' Jeremy Paxman,
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year Patrick Hennessey (b. 1982)
joined the Army in January 2004, undertaking officer training at
the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he was awarded the
Queen's Medal and commissioned into The Grenadier Guards. He served
as a Platoon Commander and later Company Operations Officer from
the end of 2004 to early 2009 in the Balkans, Africa, South East
Asia and the Falkland Islands and on operational tours to Iraq in
2006 and Afghanistan in 2007, where he became the youngest Captain
in the Army and was commended for gallantry.
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