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Also by Patrick Hennessey:

The Junior Officers' Reading Club, September 2010
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THE JUNIOR OFFICERS' READING CLUB
By: Patrick Hennessey

Killing Time and Fighting Wars

Riverhead Trade
September 2010
On Sale: September 7, 2010
334 pages
ISBN: 1594484791
EAN: 9781594484797
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir

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.

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