Violence And Comic Boredom Of A Soldier's Life Has Been Named One Of The Best Reads For 2011

The Junior Officers' Reading Club is the debut from Patrick Hennessey Photo: REX

Army Officer's Story Named One Of The Year's Best Reads -- The Telegraph

A memoir which recounts the "frenetic violence" and "comic boredom" of a soldier's life has been named one of the best reads for 2011.

The Junior Officers' Reading Club is the debut from Patrick Hennessey, who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is one of 10 books to have made the list.

It tells the former Army officer's story "through the testosterone-heavy breeding ground of Sandhurst, into the war-pockmarked, gritty Balkans, out into the nightmare of Iraq and Afghanistan's Helmand Province, pinned down by the Taliban, living only from moment to moment".

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My Comment: The boredom is a given, but whenever I talk with veterans on their war stories, they always remember the best jokes .... or what was the most horrifying moments in their lives.