The Junior Officers' Reading Club

The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars
Author Patrick Hennessey
Publication date
 2009
Media type Hardback
ISBN 978-0-14-103926-8

The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars is a 2009 book by Patrick Hennessey, a former officer in the Grenadier Guards.[1]

It charts his military career, from training at Sandhurst through several campaigns including Iraq and Afghanistan. The book received positive reviews for its account of the realities of modern soldiering and warfare.[2][3][4]

The book was serialised as the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 in June 2009.[5] A sequel, Kandak, was written by Hennessey in 2012.[6]

Reading list

A version of the book published by Penguin Books with a new Afterword in 2010 details the books that were read in "The Junior Officers' Reading Club". The list is as follows:

TitleAuthorISBN
The Marsh ArabsWilfred Thesiger ISBN 0-14-144208-5
DispatchesMichael Herr ISBN 978-0-330-25573-8
ChickenhawkRobert Mason ISBN 0-552-12419-2
Saddam Hussein: An American ObsessionAndrew Cockburn ISBN 1-85984-422-7
The Utility of ForceRupert Smith ISBN 0-14-102044-X
On WarCarl von Clausewitz ISBN 1-85326-482-2
Catch-22Joseph Heller ISBN 0-09-947046-2
Ice Cold in AlexChristopher Landon ISBN 978-0-304-36625-5
The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas ISBN 1-85326-733-3
Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes ISBN 0-09-946969-3
Kingdom of FearHunter S. Thompson ISBN 0-14-101422-9
A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole ISBN 0-14-118286-5
The Day of the LocustNathanael West ISBN 0-14-102365-1
The Rules of AttractionBret Easton Ellis ISBN 0-330-53634-6
GlamoramaBret Easton Ellis ISBN 0-330-44799-8
Vile BodiesEvelyn Waugh ISBN 0-14-118287-3
Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne ISBN 1-85326-291-9

References

  1. ↑ "Patrick Hennessey Biography". Penguin Books.
  2. ↑ Tonkin, Boyd (25 June 2009). "The Junior Officers' Reading Club, By Patrick Hennessey". The Independent. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Lowe, Keith (2 July 2009). "The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey: review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Shirley, John (15 August 2009). "The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  5. ↑ C. Duncanson, Forces for Good?: Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan (Springer, 27 Jun 2013). Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  6. ↑ Edis, Rupert (11 September 2012). "Kandak by Patrick Hennessey: review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
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