Author(s): Lee Hughes

NZ Non Fiction

An innocent teenager when he joined the army, all Lee Hughes wanted was a snappy uniform, a girlfriend and a sports car. He couldn't possible have known how much trouble he was getting himself into. Regularly led astray by friends, fools and his own sense of mischief, he reveals some of the funniest stories ever told about life in the army. Horrendous games in the officers' mess, outragious practical jokes, strange field exercises and diabolical army equipment are brought to rowdy, boisterous life through the eyes of a man who was there when it all went wrong. Incredibly, Lee Hughes even rose from the wreckage of his career to occupy space in Army Gereral Staff, but as an object lesson in how NOT to be an efficient army officer, few books could present the case for the prosecution more clearly.