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The Junior Officers' Reading Club : killing time and fighting wars / Patrick Hennessey.
- Title
- The Junior Officers' Reading Club : killing time and fighting wars / Patrick Hennessey.
- Author
- Hennessey, Patrick, 1982-
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.
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Text | Request in advance | UA652.G7 H46 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 310 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Great Britain
- Soldiers
- Personal narratives
- 2003-2011
- Afghan War > (2001-2021)
- Iraq War > (2003-2011)
- Hennessey, Patrick, 1982-
- Récits personnels
- Biographies
- Personal narratives > British
- collective biographies
- Great Britain > Army > Grenadier Guards > Battalion, 1st
- Iraq
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Personal narratives, British
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, British
- Soldiers > Great Britain > Biography
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Personal narratives
- Biographies
- Personal narratives – British
- Biographies.
- Récits personnels.
- Note
- Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2009.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue -- The Junior Officers Ŕeading Club -- A call to arms -- On the first block -- Welcome to fucking Iraq -- All things come -- Decompression -- Glossary of military terms.
- ISBN
- 9781594484797
- 1594484791
- LCCN
- 2010017134
- OCLC
- 555647844
- SCSB-11470441
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library