David Lodge Ginger, You're Barmy Paperback Book

When it isnt prison, its hell. Or at least thats the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike Ginger Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of postwar gloom. An endless round of kit layout, squarebashing, shepherds pie made with real shepherds and drills is relieved only by the occasional lecture on firearms or V.D. The reckless, impulsive Mike and the more pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to survive this twoyear confiscation of their freedom, with dramatic consequences | David Lodge Ginger, You're Barmy Paperback Book