Summary
Kandak is the story of how, in the heat of the moment between living and dying, unlikely alliances can be forged. Patrick Hennessey tells of their awkward first meetings, mutual suspicion and incomprehension, and how this eventually turned into brotherhood.
KANDAK, from Patrick Hennessey, author of the TV Book Club pick, The Junior Officers’ Reading Club, is ‘a rich depiction of life and death, love and sorrow … read this brilliant book’ – Evening Standard
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951279 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241951275 |
| Author: | Patrick Hennessey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
Required reading … unfettered, unpretentious prose … peppered with amusing anecdotes, a moving, humbling and rare account
Required reading … unfettered, unpretentious prose … peppered with amusing anecdotes, a moving, humbling and rare account – Terri Judd * Independent *
Graced with characters who might easily belong in a Rudyard Kipling or George MacDonald Fraser story – Ben Felsenburg * Metro *
A passionate tribute to the Afghan soldiers he fought alongside in Helmand … a serious piece of work … excellent – Stephen Morrison * Sunday Times *
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 *
Hennessey is an exceptional talent * Times *
This variously tender, ironic and ferocious new voice gives us literature and not propaganda * Independent *
Hennessey has a reporter’s eye for detail and a soldier’s nose for bullshit * Guardian *
It’s extremely rare to have this level of analytical intelligence combined with brutal first-hand experience * William Boyd *
Hennessey has a reporter’s eye for detail and a soldier’s nose for bullshit * Guardian *
About The Author
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 and served from 2004 to 2009 as an officer in The Grenadier Guards. In between guarding towers, castles and palaces he worked in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia, the Falkland Islands and deployed on operational tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. On leaving the Army he wrote his first book The Junior Officers’ Reading Club. He is now a barrister.
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