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- The_Junior_Officers_Reading_Club comment "The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars is a 2009 book by Patrick Hennessey, a former officer in the Grenadier Guards.It charts his military career, from training at Sandhurst through several campaigns including Iraq and Afghanistan, and vividly describes not only the frenetic violence of a soldier's life, but the periods of stifling and (sometimes) comic boredom, living inside an institution in a state of flux: an Army caught between a world that needs it and a society that no longer understands it.The author joined the army after completing an English degree at Oxford University. ".
- Q7743855 comment "The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars is a 2009 book by Patrick Hennessey, a former officer in the Grenadier Guards.It charts his military career, from training at Sandhurst through several campaigns including Iraq and Afghanistan, and vividly describes not only the frenetic violence of a soldier's life, but the periods of stifling and (sometimes) comic boredom, living inside an institution in a state of flux: an Army caught between a world that needs it and a society that no longer understands it.The author joined the army after completing an English degree at Oxford University. ".