The Junior Officers' Reading Club

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]

The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars
First edition
AuthorPatrick Hennessey
PublisherAllen Lane
Publication date
2009
Media typeHardback
ISBN978-0-14-103926-8

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 ThesigerISBN 0-14-144208-5
DispatchesMichael HerrISBN 978-0-330-25573-8
ChickenhawkRobert MasonISBN 0-552-12419-2
Saddam Hussein: An American ObsessionAndrew CockburnISBN 1-85984-422-7
The Utility of ForceRupert SmithISBN 0-14-102044-X
On WarCarl von ClausewitzISBN 1-85326-482-2
Catch-22Joseph HellerISBN 0-09-947046-2
Ice Cold in AlexChristopher LandonISBN 978-0-304-36625-5
The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre DumasISBN 1-85326-733-3
Don QuixoteMiguel de CervantesISBN 0-09-946969-3
Kingdom of FearHunter S. ThompsonISBN 0-14-101422-9
A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy TooleISBN 0-14-118286-5
The Day of the LocustNathanael WestISBN 0-14-102365-1
The Rules of AttractionBret Easton EllisISBN 0-330-53634-6
GlamoramaBret Easton EllisISBN 0-330-44799-8
Vile BodiesEvelyn WaughISBN 0-14-118287-3
Tristram ShandyLaurence SterneISBN 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. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. 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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