Monday, 18 November 2024

Proud to have .. read a Book! "The Junior Officers Reading Club"

This makes a welcome change from my usual Audible listening to a book behaviour, actually opening and leafing through the pages of a physical book. I found it most enjoyable (see below, I also found it a different form of history from the norm, as you stepped inside the mind of a British Army infantry officer as his career built up to the expectation of combat and then experienced the elephant, albeit the new asymmetrical warfare of Afghanistan):   


This was a book from the pile of "many" paperbacks I have acquired over the years on this peculiar piece of history. "Their time" of reading has appeared to have now come. The Afghanistan list to date (in a sort of chronological order) is as follows: 
  • An ordinary Soldier: Doug Beattie (Irish Guards 16th Air Assault Brigade)
  • 3 Para: Patrick Bishop
  • 3 Commando Brigade Helmand: Ewen Southby-Tailyuor
  • Joint Force Harrier: Commander Ade Orchard RN
  • Apache: Ed Macey
  • Apache Dawn: Damien Lewis
  • Task Force Helmand: Doug Beattie
  • 3 Para, Ground Truth: Patrick Bishop 
  • 3 Commando Brigade Helmand Assault: Ewen Southby-Tailyour
  • Dead Men Risen: Toby Harnden (Welsh Guards)
  • Sweating The Metal: Flt Lt Alex 'Frenchie' Duncan (Chinook)
Further recommendations list (still to get):
  • Khandak Fighting with Afghans
Any further recommendations to the above greatly appreciated. So perhaps with this background knowledge I should be able to finally get into GMT's COIN "A Distant Plain" (another 'Bucket List' item). 

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