The Junior Officer's Reading Club
Killing Time and Fighting Wars
(Sprache: Englisch)
For the first time in a generation, British soldiers are fighting at close quarters, coming under sustained attack and losing friends in terrible conditions. This is Hennessey's story, from his training ground at Sandhurst to the nightmare of Afghanistan's Helmand Province.
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For the first time in a generation, British soldiers are fighting at close quarters, coming under sustained attack and losing friends in terrible conditions. This is Hennessey's story, from his training ground at Sandhurst to the nightmare of Afghanistan's Helmand Province.
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"We went into battle in bandanas and shades with Penguin Classics in our webbing, sketch pads in our daysacks and iPods on the radio, thinking we knew better than what had gone before."Patrick Hennessey was one of the British army's self-proclaimed Bright Young Things, an Oxford graduate with a lust for combat and a literary bent. Born in 1982, he belongs to a generation of uniformed men and women who would, as he puts it, "do more and see more in five years than our fathers and uncles had packed into twenty-two on manoeuvres in Germany and rioting in Ulster".
By the time he leaves the Army he has been transformed from a pretentious young cadet into a wiser, less cocksure officer. In watching this transformation we are taken on a journey from irritation to comprehension and finally to respect. It is a journey that makes Hennessey's book worth reading.
Autoren-Porträt von Patrick Hennessey
Patrick Hennessey was born in 1982 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. He joined the Army in January 2004, undertaking officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he was awarded the Queen's Medal and commissioned into The Grenadier Guards. He served as a Platoon Commander and later Company Operations Officer from the end of 2004 to early 2009 in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia and the Falkland Islands and on operational tours to Iraq in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2007, where he became the youngest Captain in the Army and was commended for gallantry. Patrick is currently studying to become a barrister and hopes to specialize in conflict and international humanitarian law.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patrick Hennessey
- 2009, 352 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 3,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 1846141869
- ISBN-13: 9781846141867
Sprache:
Englisch
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