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Pages: 242
Authors: Patrick Hennessey
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-07 - Publisher: Penguin

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Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of ag
Kandak
Language: en
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Authors: Patrick Hennessey
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Penguin Group

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When Patrick Hennessey returned home from Afghanistan, battle-worn, exhilarated, unsure if he'd see anything like it in his life again, he left behind him bands
Not a Gentleman's War
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: John R. Milam
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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A combat veteran of the Vietnam War draws on oral histories, after-action reports, diaries, letters, and other archival sources to debunk the view that the juni
Six Weeks
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: John Lewis-Stempel
Categories: Command of troops
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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"Often fresh out of school, still with their recent Latin lessons fresh in their minds, many junior officers in the First World War went straight from being pre
Why We Fight
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Mike Martin
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Why are we willing to die for our countries? How can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? When we go to war, morality, religion and ideology often