The Junior Officers' Reading Club

The Junior Officers' Reading Club
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781101460054
ISBN-13 : 1101460059
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Book Synopsis The Junior Officers' Reading Club by : Patrick Hennessey

Download or read book The Junior Officers' Reading Club written by Patrick Hennessey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp bookshelves, Hennessey and a handful of his pals from military academy form the Junior Officers' Reading Club. By the time he reaches Afghanistan and the rest of the club are scattered across the Middle East, they are no longer cheerfully overconfident young recruits, hungering for action and glory. Hennessey captures how boys grow into men amid the frenetic, sometimes exhilarating violence, frequent boredom, and almost overwhelming responsibilities that frame a soldier's experience and the way we fight today. Watch a Video


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