The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Book

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.

A vivid and compelling memoir from the military's new generation, Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is the powerful and candid story of the modern soldier. Harrowing and amusing in equal measure, this is a rollercoaster ride covering the tour of duty undertaken by Army Officers. Written with intriguing honesty, this personal account pulls no punches in its criticisms and observations, painting a thoroughly modern picture of life on the front line.

An account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. It tells the story of how a modern soldier is made, from the testosterone-heavy breeding ground of Sandhurst to the nightmare of Iraq and Afghanistan. Patrick Hennessey's The Junior...