Junior Officers' Reading Club Killing Time and Fighting Wars
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 31.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
Juni 2009
Verlag
Allen LaneSeitenzahl
352
Maße (L/B/H)
22.2/14.5/3.5 cm
Gewicht
488 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84614-186-7
"We went into battle in bandanas and shades with Penguin Classics in our webbing, sketch pads in our daysacks and iPods on the radio, thinking we knew better than what had gone before."
Patrick Hennessey was one of the British army's self-proclaimed Bright Young Things, an Oxford graduate with a lust for combat and a literary bent. Born in 1982, he belongs to a generation of uniformed men and women who would, as he puts it, "do more and see more in five years than our fathers and uncles had packed into twenty-two on manoeuvres in Germany and rioting in Ulster".
By the time he leaves the Army he has been transformed from a pretentious young cadet into a wiser, less cocksure officer. In watching this transformation we are taken on a journey from irritation to comprehension and finally to respect. It is a journey that makes Hennessey's book worth reading.
Patrick Hennessey was one of the British army's self-proclaimed Bright Young Things, an Oxford graduate with a lust for combat and a literary bent. Born in 1982, he belongs to a generation of uniformed men and women who would, as he puts it, "do more and see more in five years than our fathers and uncles had packed into twenty-two on manoeuvres in Germany and rioting in Ulster".
By the time he leaves the Army he has been transformed from a pretentious young cadet into a wiser, less cocksure officer. In watching this transformation we are taken on a journey from irritation to comprehension and finally to respect. It is a journey that makes Hennessey's book worth reading.
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