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The Junior Officers' Reading Club
- Author
- Patrick Hennessey
- Narrator
- Patrick Hennessey
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 27 May 2010
- Run Time
- 9 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Patrick Hennessey's compelling account of life as a British soldier, The Junior Officers' Reading Club, read with charm and wit by the author himself.
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.
Critics Review
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A very fine book, a powerful dispatch from the front line ... what impresses is the sheer candour and immediacy
Spectator
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The military memoir of the moment
Times
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An extraordinary memoir . . . Hennessey has a reporter's eye for detail and a soldier's nose for bullshitAn extraordinary memoir . . . Hennessey has a reporter's eye for detail and a soldier's nose for bullshit
Guardian
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All politicians need to read honest accounts of war - at no time more than now - and Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is one of the very best
David Cameron, Books of the Year, Observer
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Must rank as the most accomplished work of military witness to emerge from British war-fighting since 1945
Independent
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Outstanding . . . A classic of its kind
William Boyd, Books of the Year, Herald
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Details
- Author
- Patrick Hennessey
- Narrator
- Patrick Hennessey
- Duration
- 9 hours
- Release Date
- 27 May 2010
- ISBN
- 9780141963945
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Military institutions, Memoirs, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Specific wars and military campaigns, Modern warfare
Synopsis
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Patrick Hennessey's compelling account of life as a British soldier, The Junior Officers' Reading Club, read with charm and wit by the author himself.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.
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