The Junior Officers' Reading Club

Killing Time and Fighting Wars

Patrick Hennessey

Penguin Books London 2010

str. 336

format 13 x 20 cm

waga 295 g

Książka w języku angielskim/The book is in English

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.