A raw, darkly humorous memoir that follows one conscript’s chaotic journey through South Africa’s military machine during the border war.Drafted into the Defence Force in 1977 as a carefree seventeen-year-old, Jon Goetzsche’s tranquil schooldays were abruptly replaced by the brutal regimentation of army life. What began as naive indifference soon spiralled into a struggle against authority, misfortune and the absurdities of war.After surviving the gruelling...