Book of the Week - The Junior Officer's Reading Club
Patrick Hennessey reads his soldier's tale for the 21st century; an account of his experiences at Sandhurst and then on deployment in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan's Helmand Province
Book of the Week - The Junior Officer's Reading Club - Bandanas, Shades and Penguin Classics
Hennessey is at a tea party, on a dam, in the middle of a war. Helmand Province is where the British Army has allied with the Afghan National Army.
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Book of the Week - The Junior Officer's Reading Club - Cleaning Your Room
The Guards head to Iraq. The surge is ongoing, but it is not their surge. Instead they are listening to Elvis and Johnny Cash and throwing anything but parties at the Iraqi jail.
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Book of the Week - The Junior Officer's Reading Club - Marking Time and Making Friends
With war raging around him, Hennessey wonders how he arrived in Afghanistan. An English graduate at Oxford, the transition to Sandhurst was a difficult one.
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Book of the Week - The Junior Officer's Reading Club - The Road to Sangin
From Iraq to Helmand Province and the road to Sangin. Battle contact, so long anticipated, proves satisfying for Hennessey and Operation Silicon is a success.
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Book of the Week - The Junior Officer's Reading Club - Tower, Windsor, Buck and Jimmys
Hennessey is commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and is straining at the leash to get to the Middle East. But the British army has other plans for him.
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