The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing time and fighting wars / Patrick Hennessey 310 pg.
Hennessey is/was an office in the British Army who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book mostly covers his training and those 2 tours. He does a great job of balancing the fear and horror of war with the boredom and the thrill of action. Sprinkled throughout are the little stories that give you a taste for the situation...the respect and friendship they feel for their Afghan counterparts, the anger at an attack that comes at a pivotal plot point during Grey's Anatomy, and the hard to comprehend feelings as their fellow soldiers are injured and killed. Of course the reading selections are great too. - Christa
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