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The Junior Officers' Reading Club

Yazan: Patrick Hennessey
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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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A very fine book, a powerful dispatch from the front line ... what impresses is the sheer candour and immediacy
The military memoir of the moment
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
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
Must rank as the most accomplished work of military witness to emerge from British war-fighting since 1945
Outstanding . . . A classic of its kind
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This was extremely well written and offered the reader insight to an uncompromising and often uncomfortable truth that few can truly understand unless they have experienced it.

Laser sharp, precision account of a junior officer's experiences

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An insightful journey into a British officers experience in a recent conflict. Hennessy pays tribute to the men and women who serve in the military whilst also paying homage to the people of Afghanistan. For me, the tragedy of the conflict manifests itself threefold when discussing loved ones of the fallen, the complexity of the boots on the ground and the plight of the Afghan who is left to pick up the peaces of his war torn country.

Highly recommend.

Honest and Excellent

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It's a confirmation that my feeling of what things might be like out there were more or less true. Huge appreciation for Patrick Hennessy for giving us a glimpse.

Everything I wanted to hear

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As many do I read this before attending Sandhurst. I had always been a lover of Military fiction and non-fiction and this is an excellently "storified" diary recital. Going through Patrick Hennessey's experience of Sandhurst and being a Junior Officer. A Terrific Listen. Would strongly recommend it.

A must read for any budding Officers

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This was a well read piece which provided an interesting perspective from an officer's view point of the conflict in Afghanistan. The description of the training period rings true as does the time in Iraq and Afghanistan and what the lads have gone through out there. I have to confess the bits that I felt undermined the whole thing was the undertone of privilege that rings through and how the whole Oxbridge educated posh boy playing at soldiers for a while before going off to be something in the city does beginning to grate. I am probably being unfair and this probably reflects my own prejudice, further exacerbated by our current rulers who clearly know nor care what the rest of us go through on a daily basis, but I did find it a bit wearing in places. If he decides to come out if the army then it won't be a major life problem but for most of the lads who come back it will be much harder. On balance a good portrait of a Guards officer's time in a tough environment.

A clear perspective of a Guard's officer

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