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Synopsis

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.

The Junior Officers' Reading Club is part of Penguin's Summer Reads 2010.

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Reviews

Critic Review:

"Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in 40 seconds, but Patrick Hennessey is one of the few." Sunday Times

"The military memoir of the moment" Times

"A very fine book, a powerful dispatch from the front line … what impresses is the sheer candour and immediacy" Spectator

"An extraordinary memoir . . . Hennessey has a reporter’s eye for detail and a soldier’s nose for bullshit" Guardian

"Outstanding . . . A classic of its kind" William Boyd, Sunday Herald, Books of the Year

"Remarkable . . . conveys vividly what it’s like to experience combat" Jeremy Paxman, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

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