Ginger Youre Barmy

Ginger Youre Barmy by Lodge, David. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780140066401.

National Service: two years of square-bashing, kit layout, shepherds pie made from real shepherds, PT and drill, relieved only by the occasional lecture on VD. Conscription has made Jonathan Browne and Mike Ginger Brady prisoners of the British Army. But reckless, impulsive Mike and pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to this two-year confiscation of their freedom. Where Jonathan chooses to keep his head down, Mike cant help but rebel against those in charge. Then one day Mike goes too far, with consequences that threaten to overturn Jonathans cultivated detachment from the idiocies of military life...