The Junior Officers' Reading Club

The Junior Officers' Reading ClubBy: Patrick Hennessey Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U. K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit camp bookshelves, Hennessey and a handful of his pals from military academy form the Junior Officers' Reading Club. By the time

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