The Junior Officers' Reading Club
Killing Time & Fighting Wars
(Sprache: Englisch)
The extraordinary memoir of Grenadier Guards officer Patrick Hennessey, an acclaimed account of the making of a modern soldier who has faced some of the most violent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can...
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The extraordinary memoir of Grenadier Guards officer Patrick Hennessey, an acclaimed account of the making of a modern soldier who has faced some of the most violent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in forty seconds, but Patrick Hennessey is one of the few' "Sunday Times"Autoren-Porträt von Patrick Hennessey
Patrick Hennessey was born in 1982 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. He joined the Army in January 2004, undertaking officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he was awarded the Queen's Medal and commissioned into The Grenadier Guards. He served as a Platoon Commander and later Company Operations Officer from the end of 2004 to early 2009 in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia and the Falkland Islands and on operational tours to Iraq in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2007, where he became the youngest Captain in the Army and was commended for gallantry. Patrick is currently studying to become a barrister and hopes to specialize in conflict and international humanitarian law.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patrick Hennessey
- 2010, 368 Seiten, Masse: 13 x 19,5 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141039264
- ISBN-13: 9780141039268
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.05.2010
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Englisch
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Soldiers who can write are as rare as writers who can strip down a machinegun in 40 seconds, but Patrick Hennessey is one of the few Sunday Times
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