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Killing Time and Fighting Wars
Riverhead Trade
September 2010
On Sale: September 7, 2010
334 pages
ISBN: 1594484791
EAN: 9781594484797
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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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