Killing time and fighting wars

"Presents the story of how a modern soldier is made, from the testosterone-heavy breeding ground of Sandhurst to the nightmare of Iraq and Afghanistan."@en
"Presents the story of how British soldiers were made through the testosterone-heavy breeding ground of Sandhurst, into the war-pockmarked, gritty Balkans. This book describes the frenetic violence of a soldier's life, and the periods of stifling and (sometimes) comic boredom, living inside an institution in a state of flux."@en
"Written in spare and lucid prose, this title describes with alarming vividness not only the frenetic violence of a soldier's life, but the periods of stifling and (sometimes) comic boredom, living inside an institution in a state of flux, an Army caught between a world that needs it and a society that no longer understands it."@en