The Junior Officers' Reading Club
Killing Time and Fighting Wars
$38.85
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2010
Summary
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 early-90s house on his iPod, 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.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141039268 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141039264 |
| Author: | Patrick Hennessey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2010 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 132mm x 22mm |
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Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in 40 seconds, but Patrick Hennessey is one of the few
Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in 40 seconds, but Patrick Hennessey is one of the few * Sunday Times *High-tempo, full-on … honest and revealing … a memoir brimming with vinegar and testosterone * Evening Standard *The military memoir of the moment * Times *A very fine book, a powerful dispatch from the front line … what impresses is the sheer candour and immediacy * Spectator *An extraordinary memoir … Hennessey has a reporter’s eye for detail and a soldier’s nose for bullshit * Guardian *Outstanding … A classic of its kind * William Boyd, Sunday Herald, Books of the Year *Harrowing and frequently funny … sparkles with wit, wisdom and boyish glee … His generation owns the war * Times *Must rank as the most accomplished work of military witness to emerge from British war-fighting since 1945 * Independent *Remarkable … conveys vividly what it’s like to experience combat * Jeremy Paxman, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year *An engaging mix of war reporting, stream of consciousness and reflections on the nature of conflict in the twenty-first century * Caroline Moorehead, Spectator, Books of the Year *
About The Author
Patrick Hennessey
Patrick Hennessey was born in 1982 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. He 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. Patrick is currently studying to become a barrister and hopes to specialize in conflict and international humanitarian law.
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