Contents

. . . and how was your war, Dad?

Introduction: Two of the boys, a wog, a donkey and myself

1 Three men walk into a bar

2 One small step for a Zetland boy

3 Hole sweet hole

4 Mayhem was only a part of it

5 Three men and a barber shop

6 A nip in the air

7 The home-front line

8 Evelyn’s war

9 Run for your death

10 Gaps in the ranks

11 Absent friends

12 From the Pimple to Scarlet Beach via Dead Man’s Gully

13 Destroy all monsters

14 Present and accounted for

15 The ordinary trenches

16 Memoirs of a pacifist smoker

17 Don’t give an old digger the gripes

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography