Written by Patrick Hennessey
Read by Patrick Hennessey
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The most accomplished work of military witness to emerge from British war-fighting since 1945' (Boyd Tonkin)
Patrick Hennessey is a graduate in his 20s. He reads Graham Greene, listens to early-90s house on his iPod and watches Vietnam movies. He has also, as an officer in the Grenadier Guards, fought in some of the most violent combat the British army has seen in a generation.
This is the story of how a modern soldier is made, from the testosterone-heavy breeding ground of Sandhurst to the nightmare of Iraq and Afghanistan. Showing war in all its terror, boredom, and exhilaration, The Junior Officers' Reading Club is already being hailed as a modern classic.
As an ex Guardsman I found this book very familiar, it has a sense of humour that mostly only soldiers can fathom out, a must read/listen.