The Junior Officers' Reading Club
Subtitle: killing time and fighting wars
By: Patrick Hennessey
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781594484797
Subjects: British Personal narratives; Great Britain. Army. Grenadier Guards. Battalion, 1st; Great Britain; Iraq War, 2003-; Soldiers; Afghan War, 2001-; Biography
Description: A revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age and 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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2009.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The Junior Officers' Reading Club; title: A call to arms; title: On the first block; title: Welcome to fucking Iraq; title: All things come; title: Decompression; title: Glossary of military terms.