Follow the hilarious adventures of a young man coming of age in apartheid South Africa. Drafted reluctantly into an army that he instinctively knows is propping up an immoral system, he is ill-equipped to deal with the realities of life away from home. Each story traces real events from 1969 to 1975 and reveals a youngster slowly becoming aware of life, as he deals with teenage love on weekends at home, the travails of military training, and troubling concerns about his career and his future. Chuckle in sympathy as he learns how to manipulate the system. Cheer him on as he contemplates a way through the maze of young life, while staring in wonderment at the night sky from a military watch-tower on the very day Neil Armstrong steps onto the moon. Each story is a tasty little morsel, as readers have reported in their chortling amusement at the antics of a young man they recognise so well from their own experiences in coming of age.

"Behind the Lines"

by Ian Patrick