One-Two-Three-One! (A Nutter`s Account of National Service)
It was a time before TVs and bathrooms, before supermarkets and central heating, before `you never had it so good!` In Korea, there was a war on, while back in Britain there were men in uniform everywhere. Many of these were conscripts - National Servicemen enduring two years of bone-shaking drill, square-bashing and weapons training. It was a time when everything was done in numbers. Or so it seemed to the motley intake of voteless, semi-skilled, sexually inexperienced teenagers on the same draft as Gunner Hall in 1952. Tall, fit and sports-oriented, Hall seemed likely to succeed in spite of being a `nutter`, otherwise known as a vegetarian and non-drinker. He survived the food, the mud, the rats and everything else to stay on as a...
Дата выхода: январь 2007