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Patrick Hennessey was born in 1982 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. He joined the Army and served from 2004 to 2009 as an officer in The Grenadier Guards. In between guarding towers, castles and palaces he worked in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia, the Falkland Islands and deployed on operational tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. On leaving the Army he wrote his first book The Junior Offi...

The extraordinary memoir of Grenadier Guards officer Patrick Hennessey, an acclaimed account of the making of a modern soldier who has faced some of the most violent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in forty seconds, but Patrick Hennessey is one of the few' "Sunday Times

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Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., "The Junior Officers' ReadingClub" is a revelatory firsthand account of a young enlistee's profound comingof age.