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词条 The Junior Officers' Reading Club
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  1. Reading list

  2. References

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| author = Patrick Hennessey
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| pub_date = 2009
| media_type = Hardback
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| isbn = 978-0-14-103926-8
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}}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:

Title Author ISBN
The Marsh Arabs Wilfred Thesiger 0-14-144208-5}}
Dispatches Michael Herr 978-0-330-25573-8}}
Chickenhawk Robert Mason 0-552-12419-2}}
An American Obsession Andrew Cockburn 1-85984-422-7}}
The Utility of Force Rupert Smith 0-14-102044-X}}
On War Carl von Clausewitz 1-85326-482-2}}
Catch-22 Joseph Heller 0-09-947046-2}}
Ice Cold in Alex Christopher Landon 978-0-304-36625-5}}
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1-85326-733-3}}
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 0-09-946969-3}}
Kingdom of Fear Hunter S. Thompson 0-14-101422-9}}
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 0-14-118286-5}}
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 0-14-102365-1}}
The Rules of Attraction Bret Easton Ellis 0-330-53634-6}}
Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis 0-330-44799-8}}
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 0-14-118287-3}}
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1-85326-291-9}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/patrick-hennessey/33545/|title=Patrick Hennessey Biography|work=Penguin Books}}
2. ^{{cite news |last=Tonkin |first=Boyd |date=25 June 2009 |title=The Junior Officers' Reading Club, By Patrick Hennessey |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-junior-officers-reading-club-by-patrick-hennessey-1719368.html |newspaper=The Independent |location= |accessdate=12 April 2016 }}
3. ^{{cite news |last=Lowe |first=Keith |date=2 July 2009 |title=The Junior Officers’ Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey: review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5721386/The-Junior-Officers-Reading-Club-by-Patrick-Hennessey-review.html |newspaper=The Telegraph |location= |accessdate=13 April 2016 }}
4. ^{{cite news |last=Shirley |first=John |date=15 August 2009 |title=The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/15/junior-officers-reading-club |newspaper=The Guardian |location= |accessdate=13 April 2016 }}
5. ^C. Duncanson, [https://books.google.com/books/about/Forces_for_Good.html?id=hSk0AAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y Forces for Good?: Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan] (Springer, 27 Jun 2013). Retrieved 13 April 2016.
6. ^{{cite news |last=Edis |first=Rupert |date=11 September 2012 |title=Kandak by Patrick Hennessey: review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/9509208/Kandak-by-Patrick-Hennessey-review.html |newspaper=The Telegraph |location= |accessdate=12 April 2016 }}
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